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Fine-art prints by Juniper Gallery on a variety of archival art papers.
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Bizarre, weird, rare historical photos. Because that's what the Internet wants.
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Shorpy contributor galleries.
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Photos uploaded by visitors to Shorpy.com. To see your photos here, register for a user account and become a member! It may take a day or two for your photos to appear. If you're already a registered user, make sure you're logged in and then click here to upload. To see member submissions in blog form, click here.
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Black-and-white historical streetscape and skyline photographs of major American cities from the 1900s, 1910s, 1920s and 1930s. New York, Washington D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and more.
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Last updated: Tue, 03/02/2021 - 12:50pm
Color transparencies including Kodachrome, Ektachrome and Anscochrome. Many large-format (mostly 4x5) Kodachrome transparencies shot for the Office of War Information. The images you see here have been adjusted by the Webmaster for color and contrast.
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Hundreds of black-and-white photos of battleships, dreadnoughts, riverboats, paddle wheelers, cruise ships, ocean liners and Great Lakes freighters and ore carriers. Photos of suspension and truss bridges including the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge and 59th Street Bridge.
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Last updated: Tue, 02/16/2021 - 8:29pm
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Last updated: Thu, 10/03/2019 - 9:13am
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Historical color and black-and-white photos of cars and trucks from the early 20th century: Model T Ford, Packard, Cadillac, Franklin, Renault, Oldsmobile and other marques from the brass era of automobiles; tailfinned road locomotives from the 1950s and beyond.
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Last updated: Sat, 02/27/2021 - 4:50pm
Black-and-white historical photos from the American Civil War. Wet plate collodion glass plate negatives exposed by Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and other noted Civil War photographers. There are hundreds of photos in this gallery.
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Last updated: Tue, 10/13/2020 - 4:43pm
Vintage colorized photos from Shorpy contributors.
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Last updated: Tue, 08/25/2020 - 9:38am
Willie and Vivian Cornett of Leatherwood, Kentucky, their 12 children and grandchildren as documented by William Gedney in 1964 and 1972. Photographs from Duke University's William Gale Gedney (1932-1989) Photographs and Writings Collection.
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Who was he, and what became of him? The answer is ... Out There. Maybe.
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Photos of a 21-year-old Elvis Presley in 1956.
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Black-and-white historical photos of the Flatiron Building, a.k.a the Fuller Building, at Fifth Avenue and Broadway in Manhattan.
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Slides, mostly Kodachromes, snagged on eBay. Plus the odd Ektachrome, Anscochrome or black-and-white snapshot.
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Last updated: Wed, 12/25/2019 - 4:03pm
Download free iPhone Wallpaper. These historic images are cropped to fit perfectly on your iPhone.
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Filling stations and garages from the 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
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Photos from 1901 documenting the Glazier Stove factory in Chelsea, Michigan.
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The economic crisis, beginning with the stock market crash of October 1929 and lasting until 1939, that saw millions of Americans plunged into poverty and destitution.
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Herbert Bell and Joe Garso, one-legged bicycle riders.
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Miss Iola Swinnerton, First Lady of Shorpy. Current occupation: Angel.
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An assortment of teens, tots, juveniles, youngsters, girls, boys and babes.
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Photos of motorbikes like the Harley-Davidson and Indian as well as motorized bicycles.
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American Indians -- actual, pretend, and cultural derivatives.
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People's Drug Stores, a once-ubiquitous retail chain in the Washington, D.C., area that was something like the Starbucks of patent remedies, cigars and "rubber goods." Interiors including soda fountains and exteriors including window displays.
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Chromolithographs, generally postcards, made by the Detroit Publishing Co. using the Photochrom process.
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Artwork for the Works Progress Administration, as well as fruit crate labels and other graphical goodness. These and many more examples can be found here.
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Black-and-white and color historical photos of American railroads, locomotives, trains, depots and stations from the late 19th century and early to mid 20th century. Photos of steam locomotives and diesel engines. Elevated railways in New York and Chicago. There are hundreds of photos in this gallery.
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World War 2 Japanese-American relocation camps.
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Eateries, bars and pop stands.
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Spanish-American War photos
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Clowns that are scary. Which of course would be all clowns.
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Newspaper photos of 1950s car wrecks, generally around Oakland, California. 4x5 inch Kodak negatives.
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Black-and-white historical photos of streetcars, trolleys and interurban railways from the early 20th century. Electric street railways and traction lines.
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A curious set of photos from the Office of War Information archive, taken by Arthur Siegel in Detroit in the summer of 1941.
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Washington, D.C., lawyer Raymond Dickey and family, and Christmas tree.
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Photos relating to television sets and television shows.
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Photographs from the Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums in England, including mug shots from the North Shields police department.
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World War 2 photos documenting life on the home front, including defense plants manufacturing aircraft and armaments, and the railroads and trains that moved them to the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Many large-format Kodachromes by Jack Delano and other photographers on assignment for the Office of War Information, as well as photos by Ansel Adams documenting Japanese-American internment camps along the West Coast.
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