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  • New Zealand in 1909. "The Rotorua Express leaving Auckland, alongside Customs Street East." Glass negative by A.P. Godber. View full size.

    A.P. Godber

    Glass plate negatives taken circa 1899-1946 by New Zealand Railways employee Albert Percy Godber (1875-1949). Credit: Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library.

    4 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 06/20/2014 - 6:35am

  • New Zealand circa 1905. "Men doing chores at a campsite, all in striped tops, poss­ibly Sumner, Christchurch." Glass negative by Adam Maclay. View full size.

    Adam Maclay

    Photographer in Christchurch, New Zealand. Adam Maclay Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library.

    20 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 06/17/2014 - 7:03pm

  • New York, 1942. Kathryn Crum, the wife of bandleader Eddie South, in the dental chair. Another of Albert Fenn's uncaptioned photos from the OWI archive. Now, Mrs. South, if you'll just open a little wider, this won't hurt a bit. View full size.

    Albert Fenn

    Office of War Information photos from the winter of 1941-42 documenting "the life of Negroes in New York, their professions, occupations, and recreational activities."

    6 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 04/16/2014 - 1:57pm

  • October 1942. "Health measures for low home temperatures. Down goes the thermometer and out come flannel nightclothes, almost like the kind Grandpa used to wear, as government workers in Washington, D.C., dress for the 65-degree maximum temperature recommended by the fuel oil limitation order." Photo by Albert Freeman for the Office of War Information. View full size.

    Albert Freeman

    Office of War Information photographer during WW2.

    16 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 02/21/2018 - 11:09am

  • February 1863. "Aquia Creek Landing, Virginia. Personnel in front of Quartermaster's Office. Photograph from the main Eastern theater of war, Burnside and Hooker, November 1862-April 1863." Wet plate glass negative by Alexander Gardner. View full size.

    Alexander Gardner

    Alexander Gardner (1821-1882), Civil War photographer. Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

    16 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 02/28/2018 - 12:58pm

  • Hollywood, 1953. "Actress Marilyn Monroe at home." 35mm color transparency by Alfred Eisenstaedt, Life magazine image archive. View full size.

    Alfred Eisenstaedt

    Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995). Images from the Time-Life archive.

    4 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 09/12/2011 - 1:41pm

  • November 1942. "Grenade throwers. Ready to make a shipment of pineapples to Hitler, Hirohito & Co. An infantryman at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, holds a double handful of deadly grenades that may one day blast open a road to Berlin or Tokyo." 4x5 acetate negative by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information. View full size.

    Alfred Palmer

    Alfred T. Palmer (1906-1993). Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

    164 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 12/16/2022 - 3:05pm

  • July 1944. New York. "Under the Third Avenue IRT elevated train line, looking north at East 58th Street." Color transparency by Andreas Feininger for Life magazine. View full size.

    Andreas Feininger

    Andreas Feininger (1906-1999). Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

    39 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 05/12/2021 - 1:28pm

  • May 1959. New York. "Cat on sidewalk." 35mm negative by Angelo Rizzuto. View full size.

    Angelo Rizzuto

    Pictures taken in New York between 1952 and 1966 by "troubled recluse" Angelo Rizzuto (1906-1967), an "outsider" artist whose work was unknown and unappreciated until after his death, at which time his 60,000 negatives and prints were bequeathed to the Library of Congress.

    8 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 06/09/2023 - 1:56am

  • October 1942. "I'll carry mine. -- Delivery vans, 1942 style, line up outside a Greenbelt, Maryland, grocery store awaiting customers. Tire scarcity and gasoline rationing have placed such service at a premium, and these youngsters who are using their express wagons to carry home Mrs. America's purchases are doing their country a real service." Medium format nitrate negative by Ann Rosener for the Office of War Information. View full size.

    Ann Rosener

    Ann Rosener. Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

    49 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 11/14/2020 - 2:31pm

  • May 1918. Paris, France. "Kitchen of restaurant. American hostel for refugees -- Accueil Franco-Américain aux réfugiés Belges et Français. Supported by the American Red Cross." 5x7 inch glass negative, American National Red Cross Photograph Collection. View full size.

    ANRC

    Images from the American National Red Cross Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress. Includes glass negatives taken in France during World War I.

    23 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 08/18/2020 - 11:45am

  • "Loading bus, leaving Manzanar for relocation. Manzanar Relocation Center, California." Large format nitrate negative by Ansel Adams. View full size.

    Ansel Adams

    Ansel Adams (1902-1984). Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

    14 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 10/07/2008 - 12:15am

  • July 16, 1923. Long Island, New York. "Severn, Margaret, Miss." The dancer Margaret Severn (1901-1997). 4x5 inch nitrate negative by Arnold Genthe. View full size.

    Arnold Genthe

    Prussian-born American photographer (1869-1942).

    50 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 11/03/2021 - 2:29pm

  • July 1942. "Hayti, Missouri. Family of Glen Eaker (seated), superintendent of the local Rural Electrification Administration (REA) cooperative." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.

    Arthur Rothstein

    Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985), American photographer who covered everything from the Dust Bowl for the Farm Security Administration to news stories for Look magazine. Rothstein grew up in the Bronx and attended Columbia University, where he helped found the University Camera Club. He later worked for the Columbia University School of Journalism.

    469 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 09/09/2023 - 3:44pm

  • August 9, 1942. "Interlochen, Michigan. National music camp where 300 or more young musicians study symphonic music for eight weeks each summer. Reading the funny papers on Sunday morning." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur S. Siegel. View full size.

    Arthur Siegel

    Arthur Siegel, photographer for the Office of War Information. Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

    63 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 08/24/2023 - 8:44pm

  • Columbus, Indiana, 1973. "Commons Courthouse Center. Interior view of shopping mall atrium with trees, walkways and crowd. Architect: César Pelli, Victor Gruen Associates." View full size.

    Balthazar Korab

    1926-2013. Hungarian-born architectural photographer who began working for Eero Saarinen at his office in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in 1955.

    23 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 05/07/2023 - 4:30pm

  • Washington, D.C., circa 1873-1916. "Unidentified woman with dog. Date based on span of years of Bell Collection." 5x7 glass negative from the C.M. Bell portrait studio. View full size.

    Bell Studio

    Glass plate negatives circa 1873-1916 from the portrait studio of Washington, D.C., photographer Charles Milton Bell (1848-1893) and its successors.

    52 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 05/10/2023 - 8:42pm

  • 1937. "Mrs. Mary McLean, Skyline Farms, Alabama." 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

    Ben Shahn

    Ben Shahn (1898-1969), Lithuanian-born artist and photographer. Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

    88 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 05/07/2014 - 1:20pm

  • May 22, 1936. "Warehouse district, Water and Dock Streets, Brooklyn, looking west under Brooklyn Bridge to Lower Manhattan." 8x10 gelatin silver print by Berenice Abbott for the Federal Art Project. View full size.

    Berenice Abbott

    Photographs taken for the Federal Art Project, now in the Changing New York Collection of the New York Public Library.

    8 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 02/13/2016 - 4:06pm

  • Circa 1900. "Elizabeth Felix with paperwhites (Clarence White's sister-in-law holding daffodils)." Gelatin silver print by Clarence H. White (1871-1925). View full size.

    C.H. White

    Clarence H. White (1871-1925), exponent of the Photo-Secessionist and Pictorialist schools of photography.

    3 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 08/19/2020 - 11:04am

  • August 1935. "Meat testing. Prince George's County, Maryland." 35mm nitrate negative by Carl Mydans for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

    Carl Mydans

    Carl Mydans (1907-2004). Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

    73 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 01/27/2022 - 12:58pm

  • Washington, D.C., 2007. "Main Reading Room, Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building. View from above showing researcher desks." Photograph (made with a Phase One P45+ digital back) by Carol Highsmith. View full size.

    Carol M. Highsmith

    1 photo in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 07/31/2010 - 11:54am

  •         Kirk Douglas, one of the last surviving movie stars from Hollywood’s golden age, whose rugged good looks and muscular intensity made him a commanding presence in celebrated films like “Lust for Life,” “Spartacus” and “Paths of Glory,” died on Wednesday at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 103. — New York Times1950. "Actor Kirk Douglas, half-length portrait, seated in chair, on set during the filming of Ace in the Hole, New Mexico." 35mm color transparency by Charles and Ray Eames. View full size.

    Charles & Ray Eames

    Husband-and-wife furniture and interior design team.

    11 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 02/05/2020 - 8:17pm

  • San Francisco circa 1927. "Little Jordan Tomboy convertible coupe." Warming up on the Shorpy Driveway of Diminutive Dropheads. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.

    Chris Helin

    Photos from glass negatives attributed to Christopher Helin, automotive writer and travel editor of the San Francisco Examiner from around 1915 to 1930.

    310 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 01/31/2023 - 6:08pm

  • Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of G Street N.W., south side, between 12th & 13th, looking southwest." Where the businesses and merchants vying for our trade include Diggs & Co., dealer in Impervious Front Brick; Madame D. Dion de Paris, dyer, curler and renovator of plumes d'autruche, as well as a doer-up of lace curtains; and the Electric Parlors of Dr. Nevin B. Shade, purveyor of Eclectic Remedies ("Mostly, 25¢"). And yes, we have bananas, in addition to real estate and Fine Tailoring. 5x7 glass negative, D.C. Street Survey Collection. View full size.

    D.C. Street Survey

    Circa 1900-1905 collection of approximately 207 glass negatives, possibly related to the McMillan Commission Survey, showing various locales throughout Washington, D.C.

    39 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 04/27/2022 - 12:01pm

  •         Almost 40 years later, a view of the back yards last seen here. Washington, D.C., 1939. "A view of backyards of apartment houses where both white and Negro families are living." 35mm nitrate negative by David Moffat Myers. View full size.

    David Myers

    15 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 08/24/2020 - 9:17am

  • From 1951 and Don Cox comes our second nighttime glimpse of the Las Vegas Club, "The House of Jack Pots." 35mm Kodachrome transparency. View full size.

    Don Cox

    Photos taken by, or relating to, Don Cox, pioneer of dry-lake racing in the postwar years. Donated to Shorpy by his colleague (and "Birth of Hot Rodding" co-author) Robert Genat.

    23 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 08/01/2021 - 5:49pm

  • October 1938. "Shafter, Kern County, California. Halloween party at FSA camp for migratory agricultural workers." Acetate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration, and Happy Halloween from Shorpy. View full size.

    Dorothea Lange

    Dorothea Lange (1895-1965). This socially conscious documentarian of Dust Bowl migrants in the 1930s took one of the most famous photographs of the Depression era, Migrant Mother. Born on May 26, 1895, in Hoboken, New Jersey, Lange learned photography at Columbia University in New York. During the Great Depression she worked for the Farm Security Administration documenting the plight of the unemployed, homeless and migrant laborers. Lange died on October 11, 1965, in San Francisco.

    279 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 10/31/2022 - 12:10pm

  • Miami, Florida, circa 1910. "Peninsular & Occidental steamer Miami off for Nassau, W.I." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    DPC

    Glass negatives from the Detroit Photographic / Detroit Publishing collection at the Library of Congress. These glass plates were the starting point for the millions of colored postcards sold by Detroit Publishing in the early years of the 20th century. The images were made using Detroit Publishing's patented Photochrom process.

    In 1939, a year before his death, Detroit Publishing partner William Henry Jackson, whose western plates formed the basis of the company's holdings in its early days, gave the negatives and prints to the Edison Institute (now known as the Henry Ford Museum) in Dearborn, Michigan. In 1949, the Edison Institute gave all of the negatives and many duplicate photographs to the Colorado Historical Society. The Colorado Historical Society transferred most of the negatives and prints for sites east of the Mississippi to the Library of Congress later that year.

    3399 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 09/25/2023 - 5:19pm

  • 1904. "Water sports at Annisquam, Gloucester, Massachusetts." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

    E.H. Hart

    45 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 02/11/2023 - 11:17am

  • A long shot of yardwork figures in the last of eight plates of the Douglas property in Takoma Park, Maryland, circa 1895. 5x7 glass negative by Edward M. Douglas (1857-1936) and donated to Shorpy by his great-grandson. View full size.

    E.M. Douglas

    Edward M. Douglas (1857-1936), U.S. Geological Survey employee whose circa 1895 glass plates depict his family and home in Takoma Park, Maryland.

    9 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 06/29/2015 - 2:17pm

  • April 9, 1953. Oak Ridge, Tennessee. "Civil Defense air raid drill, Highland View School." Photo by Ed Westcott for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. View full size.

    Ed Westcott

    Army Corps of Engineers photographer who documented activities of the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during World War 2.

    3 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 09/14/2021 - 12:24pm

  •         "May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view." -- Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire 1904. "Navajo riders in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona." Gelatin silver print by the ethnologist Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952). View full size.

    Edward Curtis

    5 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 10/27/2019 - 3:28pm

  • November 1936. "Burial ground in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania." Medium format negative by Edwin Locke for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

    Edwin Locke

    7 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 06/09/2019 - 12:09pm

  • Spring 1940. "Bank and flour mill elevators in Mount Airy, Maryland." Medium format acetate negative by Edwin Rosskam for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

    Edwin Rosskam

    49 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 05/16/2019 - 10:20pm

  • March 1943. "Washington, D.C. Riding on a streetcar." Medium format nitrate negative by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.

    Esther Bubley

    134 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 07/20/2021 - 9:10am

  • Circa 1907. "Youth with winged hat (Nicholas Giancola)." Platinum print by the Boston-based photographer Fred Holland Day (1864-1933). View full size.

    F. Holland Day

    3 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 07/14/2017 - 9:53pm

  • 1936. Beaufort County, North Carolina. "Rectory of St. Thomas' Church at Bath." 8x10 inch acetate negative by Frances Benjamin Johnston. View full size.

    F.B. Johnston

    Photographs of the pioneering feminist Frances Benjamin Johnston, commissioned by the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South.

    166 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 10/22/2019 - 7:11pm

  • May 1942. Southington, Conn. "Dimitrios Giorgios, who came from Greece, runs a soda fountain. He wasn't here long before the country entered World War I and he joined up. A member of the American Legion, he is shown here making banana splits." Photo by Fenno Jacobs, Office of War Information. View full size.

    Fenno Jacobs

    25 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 09/18/2017 - 4:17pm

  • A young woman models in a studio for photographer Fitz W. Guerin. No date is recorded with the photo, but it was probably taken around 1902. View full size.

    Fitz W. Guerin

    Fitz W. Guerin (1846 -1903). Images from the Library of Congress

    14 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 12/09/2009 - 10:31am

  • November 1942. Babies' Hospital, New York. "Student nurses, like Susan Petty of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, are rendering their country a great service by making it possible for experienced nurses to join the Army or Navy Nurse Corps. Relieved of such civilian duties as administering injections to patients like this smiling youngster, graduate nurses are tending America's fighting men in distant parts of the world." Photo by Fritz Henle, Office of War Information. View full size.

    Fritz Henle

    20 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 09/29/2018 - 2:11pm

  • June 3, 1922. New York. "Schoolgirls sailing." Recent graduates, their chaperones and a litter of fleabitten furries. 5x7 glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.

    G.G. Bain

    Photos taken mostly in and around New York City by newsphoto pioneer George Grantham Bain's Bain News Service.

    669 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 03/16/2023 - 10:41pm

  • Washington, D.C., circa 1861. "Guards at ferry landing on Mason's Island examining a pass." Wet plate glass negative by George N. Barnard. View full size.

    Geo. Barnard

    30 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 03/23/2019 - 10:09am

  • Circa 1900. "Joe Black Fox, a Sioux Indian from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show." 8x10 glass negative by Gertrude Käsebier. View full size.

    Gertrude Kasebier

    19 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 10/27/2019 - 3:27pm

  • August 1942. Washington, D.C. "Streetcar at 7th Street and Florida Avenue N.W." 4x5 inch acetate negative by Gordon Parks for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

    Gordon Parks

    1912-2006. Photographer, musician, writer and film director who got his start as a photojournalist with the Farm Security Administration. The first African-American to work as a staff photographer for Life magazine and the first black artist to produce and direct a major Hollywood film ("The Learning Tree," 1969).

    62 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 02/14/2023 - 2:34pm

  • July 28, 1946. "Florsheim Shoes, 516 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Mirror detail. Ketchum, Gina & Sharp, Architects." 5x7 inch acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.

    Gottscho-Schleisner

    New York-based firm specializing in architectural photography, founded by Samuel H. Gottscho (1875-1971) with partner William Schleisner.

    279 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 05/16/2023 - 12:29am

  • March 22, 1940. New York. "Rear of #68 and #70 Greenwich Street showing dormers and stable ell back of #73 Washington Street at left. Houses built circa 1825." 5x7 inch acetate negative by Stanley P. Mixon for the Historic American Buildings Survey. View full size.

    HABS

    Historic American Buildings Survey

    37 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 10/27/2022 - 2:13pm

  • March 13, 1936. Washington, D.C. "Man and woman disembarking from train." 4x5 inch glass negative, Harris & Ewing Collection. View full size. Washington Post, March 14, 1936: Arriving for Week at Loew's Fox         Arriving in the Capital early yesterday morning, Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone -- Mrs. Benny in private life -- were met and breakfasted by a group of Loew's executives and newspaper representatives. Mr. and Mrs. Benny are here for a week of personal appearances, in conjunction with an elaborate stage revue, at Loew's Fox Theater. Mr. Benny's Sunday night broadcast will be made from the auditorium of the National Press Club ...

    Harris + Ewing

    Harris & Ewing black-and-white photographs imaged directly from large-format glass negatives. The photographs were made by the prominent Washington, D.C., photo studio founded in 1905 by George Harris and Martha Ewing. Harris & Ewing glass plates currently residing in the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Collection.

    1019 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 06/29/2023 - 1:45am

  •         We're reposting this just in case you've had enough of that other wedding between you-know-who and what's-her-name. 1914. "Kittens in costume as bride and groom, being married by third kitten in ecclesiastical garb." Holy catrimony! Photo by Harry W. Frees. View full size.

    Harry W. Frees

    The novelty photos of Harry Whittier Frees (1879-1953), whose posed puppies and kittens illustrated postcards and children's books.

    30 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 05/19/2018 - 1:54pm

  • February 1943. "Looking up an assembly line at Ford's big Willow Run plant in Michigan, where B-24E (Liberator) bombers are being made in great numbers. The Liberator is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges on precision bombing missions. It has proved itself an excellent performer in the Pacific, Northern Africa, Europe and the Aleutians." 4x5 acetate negative by Howard Hollem for the Office of War Information. View full size.

    Howard Hollem

    Howard R. Hollem (1902-1949), photographer for the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information. His Kodachromes of women war workers in the 1940s helped form the image of "Rosie the Riveter" as a cultural icon.

    60 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 12/07/2021 - 1:11pm

  • October 1942. Washington. D.C. "Clerical workers processing forms for production requirement plan -- Priorities Division, War Production Board." Medium format acetate negative by Howard Liberman for the Office of War Information. View full size.

    Howard Liberman

    11 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 11/13/2020 - 10:58pm

  • New York, 1932. "60 Wall Tower (70 Pine Street)." The former Cities Service Building. At 67 stories, the world's third tallest structure when completed in 1932. Now a residential tower with units renting from $2,500 to $7,000 a month. Irving Underhill photo. View full size.

    Irving Underhill

    23 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 08/21/2020 - 1:26pm

  •         Classified as a marmot, the groundhog is a member of the squirrel family, Sciuridae, within the order Rodentia. Also called a woodchuck, it is considered basically a giant North American ground squirrel. -- Encyclopaedia Britannica This little fellow, snapped circa 1939 by Jack Allison for the Farm Security Admin­istration, didn't rate a caption, so we can't say for sure where he is other than his front porch. Whereas he used to live in a hole in the ground, his two-dimensional self now resides in the archives of the Library of Congress. View full size.

    Jack Allison

    7 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 02/02/2018 - 7:11am

  • July 1942. "Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A crane operator." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.

    Jack Delano

    1914-1997. Born Jacob Ovcharov in Kiev, Ukraine. Farm Security Administration photographer noted for his work in Puerto Rico. Here at Shorpy, his large-format Kodachromes of trains and railroads are among the most popular posts.

    679 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 09/05/2023 - 3:15pm

  • New York, 1888. "Bandits' roost, 59½ Mulberry Street (Mulberry Bend)." Gelatin silver print from a glass negative by the social reformer Jacob Riis (1849-1914). View full size.

    Jacob Riis

    Photographs by the Danish-American social reformer Jacob August Riis (1849-1914).

    1 photo in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 04/21/2022 - 10:29am

  • 1865. "Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. View of Maryland Heights at confluence of Shenandoah and Potomac rivers." Wet plate glass negative (detail) by James Gardner. Civil War glass negative collection, Library of Congress. View full size.

    James Gardner

    3 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 05/19/2008 - 11:37pm

  • May 1862. "Yorktown, Va. (vicinity). The Peninsular Campaign -- Camp Winfield Scott. Duc de Chartres, Comte de Paris, Prince de Joinville and friends playing dominoes at mess table." Wet plate negative by James F. Gibson. View full size.

    James Gibson

    11 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 03/21/2019 - 6:50pm

  • April 1942. "Provincetown, Massachusetts. Portuguese grocer." Our third visit to Anybody's Market, purveyor of Monarch Finer Foods. 4x5 acetate negative by John Collier. View full size.

    John Collier

    1913-1992. Photographer for the Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information. Author of "Visual Anthropology."

    186 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 03/15/2023 - 4:06pm

  •         "With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph. So help us God." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dec. 8, 1941 March 1942. Washington, D.C. "Construction of temporary war emergency buildings on the Mall, near 16th and 17th Streets N.W., seen from the top of the Washington Monument." Acetate negative by John Ferrell for the Office of War Information. View full size.

    John Ferrell

    Photographer for the Office of War Information.

    10 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 11/23/2020 - 3:22pm

  • "Colorado, 1888." Sheep Mountain from Buena Vista. Photo by John C.H. Grabill. View full size.

    John Grabill

    7 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 05/15/2019 - 11:59pm

  • New York, 1948. "Weitzner & Papper Monuments truck at Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens." 4x5 negative by John M. Fox. View full size.

    John M. Fox

    Mid-century New York photographer whose address was 1175 Park Avenue.

    26 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 04/18/2015 - 9:29am

  • August 1942. "Detroit, Michigan. Boys in the Polish district." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.

    John Vachon

    604 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 08/16/2023 - 2:02pm

  • December 1943. Washington, D.C. "Decorating the tree at a Christmas Eve party given by Local 203 of the United Federal Workers of America, Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)." Photo by Joseph A. Horne. View full size.

    Joseph Horne

    11 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 12/06/2017 - 11:36am

  • "May 9, 1960. Case Study House #22. Stahl residence at 1635 Woods Drive, Los Angeles. Architect: Pierre Koenig." Color transparency by Julius Shulman, who died Wednesday in California at age 98. View full size | "A Shot in the Dark"

    Julius Shulman

    6 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 09/13/2011 - 12:12pm

  • March 1909. A trio of Hartford, Connecticut, newsies. "Have been selling two years. Youngest, Yedda Welled, is 11 years old. Next, Rebecca Cohen, is 12. Next, Rebecca Kirwin, is 14." Glass negative by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Committee. View full size.

    Lewis Hine

    Photos taken by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Commission and its report to Congress.

    550 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 02/26/2023 - 3:12pm

  • May 1964. 35mm Kodachrome by Toni Frissell for the Life magazine assignment "The Splendor of a Great Family: The Vanderbilts." View full size.         On her country estate near Stamford, Connecticut, Gloria Vanderbilt enjoys a picnic with her husband, Wyatt Cooper, and two sons by her marriage to Leopold Stokowski -- Chris, 12, and Stan, 13. She came upon the picturesque waterfall with its secluded cottage one day and couldn't resist buying it. "It was like something out of a fairy tale," she exclaims.

    LIFE

    Life magazine photo archive.

    31 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 02/27/2023 - 11:00am

  • March 1965. "The King Family -- including the King Sisters, King Kiddies and King Cousins -- with actor Robert Clarke and others on the set of the ABC-TV musical variety series The King Family." 35mm Kodachrome transparency by John Vachon for Look magazine. View full size.

    LOOK

    Photos taken by various photographers for Look magazine in the 1940s, '50s and '60s.

    293 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 04/08/2023 - 7:57pm

  • Washington, D.C., 1942. "Children playing, aiming sticks as guns." Kodachrome transparency by Louise Rosskam for the Office of War Information. View full size.

    Louise Rosskam

    12 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 04/14/2022 - 2:26pm

  • October 1942. "U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Boxing." Nitrate negative by Lieutenant Whitman for the Office of War Information. View full size.

    Lt. Whitman

    Office of War Information photographer assigned to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.

    6 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 07/20/2021 - 8:56am

  • December 1940. "Construction of Army training camps around Alexandria, Louisiana. East Side Cafe with rooms for rent, 'Soldiers Welcome,' on highway to Camp Livingston." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

    M.P. Wolcott

    Marion Post Wolcott (1910-1990), pioneering female photojournalist for the Farm Security Administration.

    355 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 06/30/2023 - 4:40pm

  • South Carolina, 1956. Another entry from Margaret Bourke-White's photoessay on segregation and civil rights in South. Will someone pass the salt? Color transparency from the Life magazine photo archive. View full size.

    Margaret Bourke-White

    5 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 11/28/2008 - 5:53pm

  • July 1942. "Middle River, Baltimore County, Maryland. Housing development for workers at the Glenn L. Martin aircraft plant. Living room and dining alcove." Porch Lady is back, pouring a nice glass of air in her Cemesto bungalow. Acetate negative by Marjory Collins. View full size.

    Marjory Collins

    125 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 09/07/2023 - 1:58pm

  • July 1941. "Ninth Street amusements, Washington, D.C." Medium format acetate negative by Martha McMillan Roberts for the FSA. View full size.

    Martha Roberts

    Photographs by Martha McMillan Roberts.

    6 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 10/21/2018 - 3:57pm

  • 1864. "Federal cavalry guarding the Orange & Alexandria R.R. near Union Mills, Virginia." Wet plate glass negative by Mathew Brady -- National Archives. View full size.

    Mathew Brady

    12 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 10/13/2020 - 4:43pm

  • October 1931. "Imperial Airways aircraft refueling at Semakh, British Mandate Palestine." 5x7 glass negative, Matson Photo Service. View full size.

    Matson

    30 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 01/21/2015 - 11:37am

  • October 1960. Apple Valley, California. "Hilltop House. Newton T. Bass residence, living room. Francisco Artigas, architect." Besides the view, the focal point of this room seems to be a conference table colliding with an iceberg. From photos by Maynard L. Parker for Pictorial California and House Beautiful ("Look What's Happening to Showers!"). Source: Huntington Library. View full size.

    Maynard L. Parker

    (1900-1976) Architectural photographer who was among the pre-eminent contributors to House Beautiful and similar publications in midcentury America.

    5 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 03/07/2015 - 10:30pm

  • Washington, D.C., 1919. "Lunch vendors, Treasury Annex." At left, Leoffler's Liberty Lunch for 20 cents. And yes, we have bananas. 4x5 glass negative, National Photo Co. View full size.

    Natl Photo

    Photographs taken in and near Washington, D.C., by the National Photo Co., whose archive of thousands of negatives (mostly glass plates) and prints was donated by proprietor Herbert E. French to the Library of Congress in 1947.

    2032 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 07/15/2023 - 6:39pm

  •   AND THE ANSWER IS: Mission Boulevard in the Bay Area burg of Hayward, California. Circa 1960, this random selection from the News Photo Archive shows a busy street in Anytown, USA. Where exactly are we? 4x5 inch acetate negative. View full size.

    News Photo Archive

    4x5 negatives retired from the archives of U.S. newspapers, acquired and scanned by Shorpy. So far the bulk of the images seem to be from either Chicagoland or Columbus, Georgia. There are also dozens of car-accident photos from Oakland, California, which have their own sub-gallery (Signal 30).

    240 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 01/10/2023 - 11:58pm

  • May 13, 1911. "Harvard Eddie" Grant, third baseman for the Cincinnati Reds. A Harvard grad who practiced law after retiring from baseball, Eddie was among the first to enlist in the Army after the U.S. entered World War I in 1917. An infantry captain, he was killed by an exploding shell in France, where he is buried. Gelatin silver print by Paul Thompson. View full size.

    Paul Thompson

    5 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 11/07/2022 - 5:09pm

  • June 1943. "Keysville, Virginia. Randolph Henry High School. Chemistry class equipment." Photo by Philip Bonn, Office of War Information. View full size.

    Philip Bonn

    7 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 10/16/2017 - 4:41am

  • April 1954. New York. "Actress Cloris Leachman (seen earlier here, here and here) at home with husband George Englund." Photo by Phillip Harrington for Look magazine. View full size. Cloris Leachman, Oscar Winner And TV Comedy Star, Is Dead at 94         Cloris Leachman, who won an Academy Award for her portrayal of a neglected housewife in the stark drama “The Last Picture Show” but who was probably best known for getting laughs, notably in three Mel Brooks movies and on television comedies like “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Malcolm in the Middle,” died on Wednesday at her home in Encinitas, Calif. She was 94. -- New York Times

    Phillip Harrington

    Photos of a young Elvis Presley.

    25 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 01/27/2021 - 7:36pm

  •         The Penfield Box Co. at 21 Gold Street. Circa 1893-1899. "Doorways to two businesses, New York City." Tuesday at the Terrace Garden: the French Students' bal masque. Glass negative by Robert L. Bracklow. View full size.

    R.L. Bracklow

    Glass negatives by Robert L. Bracklow (1849-1919), a member of the Society of Amateur Photographers of New York.

    3 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 04/25/2022 - 1:39pm

  • September 1942. Rochester, New York. "Earl Babcock's mother helping with his bath." Photo by Ralph Amdursky, Office of War Information. View full size.

    Ralph Amdursky

    Photos for the U.S. Office of War Information of the Babcocks, a "typical war worker's family" living in Rochester, New York.

    11 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 09/07/2017 - 9:05pm

  • March 1944. "Children playing on the roof of the Lighthouse, an institution for the blind, at 111 East 59th Street, New York." Photo by Richard Boyer for the Office of War Information. View full size.

    Richard Boyer

    2 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 05/27/2017 - 10:28am

  • May 1942. "Portuguese-Americans in California. Irene Farias, who was queen of the Saint Jude Society of San Lorenzo, and her maids visit the Holy Ghost Festival at Novato. Miss Farias' mother was born in Portugal, her father in Honolulu." Photo by Russell Lee. View full size.

    Russell Lee

    772 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 05/20/2023 - 1:07pm

  • 1910. "Cycle shop interior. Christchurch, New Zealand." B.S.A. stood for Birmingham Small Arms. Photo by Steffano Francis Webb. View full size.

    S.F. Webb

    Glass plates by New Zealand photographer Steffano Francis Webb.

    3 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 08/13/2013 - 3:30pm

  • 1865. Charleston, South Carolina. "Beacon on parapet of Fort Sumter." The light at the end of the charnel. Wet plate negative by Samuel A. Cooley. View full size.

    Sam Cooley

    12 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 02/24/2014 - 5:38pm

  • 1938. "Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. Miner's home in the Brownsville sector." Medium format acetate negative by Sheldon Dick for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

    Sheldon Dick

    1906-1950. Farm Security Administration photographer known mainly for the violent circumstances of his death.

    22 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 11/05/2020 - 11:18am

  • June 1947. "Bodybuilder Gene Jantzen with wife Pat and 11-month-old son Kent." Photo by Stanley Kubrick for the Look magazine assignment "Strong Man's Family." Look Photograph Collection, Library of Congress. View full size.

    Stanley Kubrick

    11 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 04/28/2017 - 7:40am

  •         UPDATE: The aviation experts among us aver that the photo shows the USS Los Angeles, not the Akron. In which case the date would be November 2, 1931, when both airships overflew the capital. August 19, 1932. The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. "The Navy airship Akron appeared in the morning and after circling the city released several of her small fighting airplanes over Hoover Field. These were later drawn into the hangar constructed on the interior of the airship." 4x5 inch nitrate negative by Theodor Horydczak. View full size.

    Theodor Horydczak

    73 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 09/24/2023 - 6:15pm

  • April 1936. "Farm boys. Jackson County, Ohio." 35mm nitrate negative by Theodor Jung for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

    Theodor Jung

    13 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 12/04/2011 - 11:17am

  • April 1865. Petersburg, Virginia. "Dead Confederate soldier outside the walls of Fort Mahone." Wet plate glass negative, left half of stereo pair, by Thomas C. Roche. Civil War glass negative collection, Library of Congress. View full size. There's a soundtrack and slide show for these photos here.

    Thomas Roche

    5 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 09/11/2011 - 11:51am

  • "June 1863 Gettysburg Campaign. Fairfax Court House, Virginia. Capt. J.B. Howard, Office of Assistant Quartermaster, and group at headquarters, Army of the Potomac." Wet plate glass negative by Timothy H. O'Sullivan. View full size.

    Timothy O'Sullivan

    24 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 05/27/2014 - 8:41am

  • August 1962. Newport, Rhode Island. "Two of Newport's beauties, Minnie Cushing and Topsy Taylor, go water-skiing out near Gooseberry Island. In tow behind their boat is weekend visitor Dick Cowell, a former water-ski champion." 35mm Kodachrome by Toni Frissell for the Life magazine assignment "The Stately World of Newport." View full size.

    Toni Frissell

    45 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 09/16/2023 - 11:24am

  • The place: Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco, with St. Mary's Cathedral at far left. The year: 1921. The subject: Three Easterners who've motored west in a battered Cadillac touring car. 6½ x 8½ inch glass negative, originally from the Wyland Stanley collection. View full size.

    W. Stanley

    Large-format negatives, purchased from the estate of Marilyn Blaisdell and scanned by Shorpy, that were once part of the Wyland Stanley Collection of San Francisco historical memorabilia.

    115 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 01/24/2020 - 10:30am

  • 1902. "Characteristic employees' home, National Cash Register, Dayton, O." Along with two characteristic employees. 8x10 inch glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.

    W.H. Jackson

    William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), pioneering landscape photographer whose glass negatives formed a major part of the Detroit Publishing Company's holdings.

    148 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 10/21/2022 - 4:29pm

  • November 1935. "Household supply store. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania." 8x10 inch nitrate negative by Walker Evans for the U.S. Resettlement Administration. View full size.

    Walker Evans

    Walker Evans (1903-1975), Farm Security Administration photographer who documented the hardships and poverty of the Depression era, focusing on the rural South. Collaborated with the writer James Agee on the book "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men."

    80 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 02/07/2023 - 9:48am

  • Barbecue at Marshall Hall, Maryland, in 1893. View full size. Photograph by William Cruikshank. Marshall Hall, an estate on the Potomac opposite Mount Vernon, had a boat landing and was popular with day-trippers from Washington.

    William Cruikshank

    4 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 07/29/2012 - 7:42pm

  • Leatherwood, Kentucky, 1964. "Boy covered by dirt smoking cigarette with one hand, holding can of tobacco in other." The tobacco-loving Cornett boys started early. Gedney Photographs Collection, Duke University. View full size.

    William Gedney

    Photographs from Duke University's William Gale Gedney (1932-1989) Photographs and Writings Collection.

    19 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 07/20/2012 - 9:05pm

  • Spring 1947. "To unite jazz and dance. Choreographer Lee Sherman and dancers in rehearsal -- Radio City Music Hall, New York." Acetate negative by William Gottlieb. View full size.

    William Gottlieb

    Photographer for Down Beat magazine; chronicler of the New York jazz scene in the 1940s and '50s.

    10 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 02/06/2023 - 1:48pm

  • July 1865. "Col. William Telford and officers of the 50th Pennsylvania Infantry at Gettysburg." Wet plate negative by William Morris Smith. View full size.

    William Morris Smith

    3 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 01/29/2019 - 12:21am

  • September 19, 1902. Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. "Side view of Dan Tate, left, and Wilbur Wright flying the 1902 glider as a kite." 5x7 glass negative by Orville Wright. View full size.

    Wright Brothers

    12 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 06/22/2022 - 6:02pm

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