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Fine-art prints by Juniper Gallery on a variety of archival art papers.
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Last updated: Fri, 01/27/2023 - 9:10pm
Bizarre, weird, rare historical photos. Because that's what the Internet wants.
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Last updated: Mon, 12/19/2022 - 12:38pm
Shorpy contributor galleries.
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Last updated: Wed, 01/11/2023 - 7:42pm
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.
6064 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 01/19/2023 - 9:24pm
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: Fri, 01/27/2023 - 9:10pm
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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Last updated: Sat, 11/05/2022 - 12:45pm
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Last updated: Thu, 01/19/2023 - 9:26pm
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Last updated: Fri, 06/18/2021 - 3:30pm
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.
898 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 01/08/2023 - 4:46pm
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Last updated: Thu, 10/03/2019 - 9:13am
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Last updated: Sat, 12/31/2022 - 2:59pm
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.
2400 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 01/17/2023 - 12:22pm
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.
324 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 11/11/2022 - 11:13am
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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Last updated: Fri, 07/20/2012 - 9:05pm
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Last updated: Wed, 08/31/2022 - 12:51am
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Last updated: Tue, 03/27/2018 - 10:48am
Restaurants, bars and pop stands.
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Last updated: Tue, 01/10/2023 - 11:58pm
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Last updated: Tue, 01/24/2023 - 4:27pm
Who was he, and what became of him? The answer is ... Out There. Maybe.
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Last updated: Thu, 10/04/2012 - 2:54am
Photos of a 21-year-old Elvis Presley in 1956.
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Last updated: Sun, 10/21/2018 - 11:06am
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Last updated: Sun, 01/22/2023 - 2:55pm
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Last updated: Fri, 12/09/2022 - 1:38pm
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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Last updated: Sun, 01/24/2016 - 10:26am
Slides, mostly Kodachromes, snagged on eBay. Plus the odd Ektachrome, Anscochrome or black-and-white snapshot.
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Last updated: Sun, 12/25/2022 - 11:44pm
Download free iPhone Wallpaper. These historic images are cropped to fit perfectly on your iPhone.
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Last updated: Thu, 09/11/2008 - 9:20am
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Last updated: Fri, 10/07/2022 - 11:34am
Filling stations and garages from the 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
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Last updated: Wed, 01/18/2023 - 10:42pm
Photos from 1901 documenting the Glazier Stove factory in Chelsea, Michigan.
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Last updated: Sun, 03/05/2017 - 9:02pm
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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Last updated: Thu, 04/08/2021 - 1:52pm
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Herbert Bell and Joe Garso, one-legged bicycle riders.
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Last updated: Tue, 08/13/2013 - 4:09pm
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Last updated: Sun, 12/25/2022 - 11:44pm
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Last updated: Wed, 01/04/2023 - 12:46pm
Miss Iola Swinnerton, First Lady of Shorpy. Current occupation: Angel.
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Last updated: Wed, 12/23/2020 - 9:15am
Jewell R. Mazique (1913-2007), labor and civil rights activist and Library of Congress employee who was the subject of a documentary photo series taken in 1942 by John Collier for the U.S. Office of the Coordinator of Information.
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Last updated: Mon, 01/16/2023 - 8:22pm
An assortment of teens, tots, juveniles, youngsters, girls, boys and babes.
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Last updated: Fri, 01/20/2023 - 12:36pm
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Photos of motorbikes like the Harley-Davidson and Indian as well as motorized bicycles.
57 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 09/06/2022 - 10:28am
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Last updated: Tue, 06/07/2022 - 4:51pm
American Indians -- actual, pretend, and cultural derivatives.
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Last updated: Tue, 11/08/2022 - 2:41pm
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Last updated: Fri, 09/04/2020 - 3:36pm
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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Last updated: Thu, 12/22/2022 - 2:40pm
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Last updated: Thu, 01/26/2023 - 3:20pm
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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Last updated: Fri, 11/01/2013 - 9:33am
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Last updated: Wed, 03/06/2019 - 4:03pm
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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Last updated: Mon, 01/23/2023 - 11:32am
World War 2 Japanese-American relocation camps.
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Last updated: Thu, 09/01/2022 - 10:13am
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Last updated: Wed, 12/28/2022 - 12:16pm
Spanish-American War photos
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Last updated: Thu, 10/02/2014 - 2:34pm
Clowns that are scary. Which of course would be all clowns.
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Last updated: Tue, 09/12/2017 - 8:05am
Newspaper photos of 1950s car wrecks, generally around Oakland, California. 4x5 inch Kodak negatives.
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Last updated: Sat, 01/07/2023 - 2:27pm
The star of eight enigmatic, uncaptioned exposures credited to John Vachon. Shot in May 1942 in Grand Island, Nebraska.
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Last updated: Tue, 03/08/2022 - 3:35pm
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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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Last updated: Mon, 12/05/2022 - 12:25pm
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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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Last updated: Wed, 11/27/2013 - 9:07pm
Washington, D.C., lawyer Raymond Dickey and family, and Christmas tree.
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Last updated: Mon, 12/12/2022 - 4:33pm
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Last updated: Wed, 09/07/2022 - 12:15pm
Photos relating to television sets and television shows.
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Last updated: Thu, 06/02/2022 - 11:03am
Photographs from the Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums in England, including mug shots from the North Shields police department.
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Last updated: Tue, 01/17/2012 - 11:41am
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Last updated: Sun, 02/06/2011 - 7:06pm
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Last updated: Sat, 05/19/2018 - 1:54pm
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.
672 photos in this gallery
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