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- I Thought
- No. 7 v. No. 13
- Don't forget where we parked the car, Hon
- 80 years later —
- Double Cola Clocks
- Um, er
- Sold American
- Luckies 2 to 1
- Coke-lectable
- Pads of Tobacco
- Times long gone in Durham
- Mascots
- Let the games begin.
- Jocks and Bobby Socks
- A Streetcar Named Diner
- The Armory Building
- Banged Up
- Alas, Alas
- Rug or rag?
- Creepy Nun
- Pictures I love
- Classic Coke
- Scared Me
- I'll be buried in 'em
- The lost art of conversation
- Tough classes in college
- Can it be?
- Hope they quit that terrible addiction of smoking
- Most of the guys I knew
- Walking Wounded
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Fine-art prints by Juniper Gallery on a variety of archival art papers.
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Bizarre
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Places
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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Kodachromes
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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Art & Design
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Aviation
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Bicycles
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Boats & Bridges
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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Cars+Trucks
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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Civil War
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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Vintage colorized photos from Shorpy contributors.
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Cornett Family
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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Education
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Edwards Boy
Who was he, and what became of him? The answer is ... Out There. Maybe.
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Elvis 1956
Photos of a 21-year-old Elvis Presley in 1956.
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Factories
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Farked
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Film Roll
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Fires, Floods etc.
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Flatiron Building
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
Found Photos
Slides, mostly Kodachromes, snagged on eBay. Plus the odd Ektachrome, Anscochrome or black-and-white snapshot.
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Free iPhone Wallpaper
Download free iPhone Wallpaper. These historic images are cropped to fit perfectly on your iPhone.
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Frontier Life
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Gas Stations
Filling stations from the 1910s and 1920s.
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Glazier Stove Works
Photos from 1901 documenting the Glazier Stove factory in Chelsea, Michigan.
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Handsome Rakes
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Herb & Joe
Herbert Bell and Joe Garso, one-legged bicycle riders.
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Holidays
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Iola S.
Miss Iola Swinnerton, First Lady of Shorpy. Current occupation: Angel.
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Kids
An assortment of teens, tots, juveniles, youngsters, girls, boys and babes.
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Kitchens etc.
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Krazy Kat Club
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Landscapes
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Magic & Spiritualism
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Medicine
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Mining
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Motorcycles
Photos of motorbikes like the Harley-Davidson and Indian as well as motorized bicycles.
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Movies
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On the Road
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Painfully Obvious Photoshoppery
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Patriotic
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PDS
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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Performing Arts
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Photochrom
Chromolithographs, generally postcards, made by the Detroit Publishing Co. using the Photochrom process.
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Piscatorial Downspouts
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Portraits
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Posters
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Pretty Girls
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Public Figures
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Railroads
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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Relocation Camps
World War 2 Japanese-American relocation camps.
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Last updated: Wed, 03/23/2016 - 1:21pm
Restaurants
Eateries, bars and pop stands.
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Rural America
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S-A War
Spanish-American War photos
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Scary Clowns
Clowns that are scary. Which of course would be all clowns.
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Signal 30
Newspaper photos of 1950s car wrecks, generally around Oakland, California. 4x5 inch Kodak negatives.
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Small Towns
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Sports
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Stores & Markets
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Streetcars
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: Wed, 04/17/2019 - 11:23am
Swimming
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Texas Mountain Trail
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The Card Game
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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The Depression
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The Dickeys
Washington, D.C., lawyer Raymond Dickey and family, and Christmas tree.
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The Office
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Toadlike Autocrats
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Travel & Vacation
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TV
Photos relating to television sets and television shows.
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Tyne & Wear
Photographs from the Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums in England, including mug shots from the North Shields police department.
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Very Old Ads
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Last updated: Sun, 02/06/2011 - 7:06pm
Weddings
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WW2
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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Last updated: Fri, 04/19/2019 - 11:33pm
WWI
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Last updated: Wed, 01/02/2019 - 11:30am
Zeppelins & Blimps
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Last updated: Sat, 10/29/2016 - 12:16am
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