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  • Rotorua Express: 1909

    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

  • Banded Brothers: 1905

    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

  • Fear Factor: 1942

    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

  • Iron Maidens: 1942

    Albert Freeman

    Office of War Information photographer during WW2.

    16 photos in this gallery

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

  • Landing Party: 1863

    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

  • We (Heart) Marilyn: 1953

    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

  • The Jolly Grenadier: 1942

    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

  • Under the El: 1944

    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

  • Cat Park: 1958

    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.

    7 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 11/18/2021 - 1:43pm

  • Fresh Direct: 1942

    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

  • Kitchen Aid: 1918

    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

  • Leaving Manzanar: 1943

    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

  • Margaret Severn: 1923

    Arnold Genthe

    Prussian-born American photographer (1869-1942).

    50 photos in this gallery

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

  • Lady of the Lathe: 1942

    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.

    446 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 05/27/2023 - 5:33pm

  • Let's Do Launch: 1943

    Arthur Siegel

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

    60 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 02/01/2023 - 3:01pm

  • That Seventies Mall: 1973

    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

  • Known but to Dog: 18??

    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

  • The Merry Fiddler: 1937

    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

  • INSPECTION: 1936

    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

  • Your Message Here: 1900

    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

  • Mystery Meat: 1935

    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

  • Library of Congress: 2007

    Carol M. Highsmith

    1 photo in this gallery

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

  • Kirk Douglas: 1916-2020

    Charles & Ray Eames

    Husband-and-wife furniture and interior design team.

    11 photos in this gallery

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

  • Little Tomboy: 1927

    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

  • The Ostrich: 1901

    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

  • Rowhouse Redux: 1939

    David Myers

    15 photos in this gallery

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

  • Las Vegas Club: 1951

    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

  • Halloween Party: 1938

    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

  • Sousa Next Sunday: 1900

    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.

    3379 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 05/25/2023 - 1:00pm

  • Water Sports: 1904

    E.H. Hart

    45 photos in this gallery

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

  • The Homestead: 1895

    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

  • Grounded: 1953

    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

  • Navajo Riders: 1904

    Edward Curtis

    5 photos in this gallery

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

  • Our Parents: 1936

    Edwin Locke

    7 photos in this gallery

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

  • Rolling in Dough: 1940

    Edwin Rosskam

    49 photos in this gallery

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

  • Here We Go Again: 1943

    Esther Bubley

    134 photos in this gallery

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

  • Written on the Wind: 1907

    F. Holland Day

    3 photos in this gallery

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

  • Bath House: 1936

    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

  • Bananamerica: 1942

    Fenno Jacobs

    25 photos in this gallery

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

  • The Reaper

    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

  • Sticking Point: 1942

    Fritz Henle

    20 photos in this gallery

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

  • Chicks Ahoy: 1922

    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

  • Potomac Passage: 1861

    Geo. Barnard

    30 photos in this gallery

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

  • Smoke Signal: 1900

    Gertrude Kasebier

    19 photos in this gallery

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

  • Car Stop: 1942

    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

  • Footloose: 1946

    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

  • Rear Windows: 1940

    HABS

    Historic American Buildings Survey

    37 photos in this gallery

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

  • The Device: 1928

    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.

    1018 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 12/31/2021 - 12:40pm

  • Cat Wedding: 1914

    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

  • Avenging Angels: 1943

    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

  • The Deep State: 1942

    Howard Liberman

    11 photos in this gallery

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

  • High and Mighty: 1932

    Irving Underhill

    23 photos in this gallery

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

  • Groundhog Day: 1939

    Jack Allison

    7 photos in this gallery

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

  • Study Buddy: 1942

    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.

    663 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 04/14/2023 - 1:38pm

  • Bandits' Roost: 1888

    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

  • Harpers Ferry: 1865

    James Gardner

    3 photos in this gallery

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

  • French Frères: 1862

    James Gibson

    11 photos in this gallery

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

  • Anybody's Rhubarb: 1942

    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

  • Washington's Shadow: 1942

    John Ferrell

    Photographer for the Office of War Information.

    10 photos in this gallery

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

  • True West: 1888

    John Grabill

    7 photos in this gallery

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

  • At Rest: 1948

    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

  • Buy War Bonds: 1942

    John Vachon

    599 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 05/13/2023 - 12:51pm

  • Deck the Hall: 1943

    Joseph Horne

    11 photos in this gallery

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

  • Julius Shulman: 1910-2009

    Julius Shulman

    6 photos in this gallery

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

  • Re-Becca: 1909

    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

  • Family Picnic: 1964

    LIFE

    Life magazine photo archive.

    31 photos in this gallery

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

  • The Singing Kings: 1965

    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

  • The Children's Army: 1942

    Louise Rosskam

    12 photos in this gallery

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

  • Annapolis Pugilist: 1942

    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

  • Boomtown: 1941

    M.P. Wolcott

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

    351 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 12/07/2022 - 5:22pm

  • Red, White and Blue: 1956

    Margaret Bourke-White

    5 photos in this gallery

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

  • Diplomatic Plates: 1942

    Marjory Collins

    121 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 05/13/2023 - 8:33pm

  • Penny Land: 1941

    Martha Roberts

    Photographs by Martha McMillan Roberts.

    6 photos in this gallery

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

  • None Shall Pass: 1864

    Mathew Brady

    12 photos in this gallery

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

  • Imperial Air: 1931

    Matson

    30 photos in this gallery

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

  • Hilltop House: 1960

    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

  • Prove It: 1925

    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.

    2025 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 03/11/2023 - 3:24pm

  • Rondale's Burgers: 1960

    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

  • Harvard Eddie: 1911

    Paul Thompson

    5 photos in this gallery

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

  • Personal Chemistry: 1943

    Philip Bonn

    7 photos in this gallery

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

  • Cloris Leachman: 1926-2021

    Phillip Harrington

    Photos of a young Elvis Presley.

    25 photos in this gallery

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

  • Box Office: 1899

    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

  • Tub Time: 1942

    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

  • Downhill Slider: 1944

    Richard Boyer

    2 photos in this gallery

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

  • Queen Irene: 1942

    Russell Lee

    772 photos in this gallery

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

  • Tyres & Fittings: 1910

    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

  • The Parapet: 1865

    Sam Cooley

    12 photos in this gallery

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

  • Brownsville: 1938

    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

  • Lil Champ: 1947

    Stanley Kubrick

    11 photos in this gallery

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

  • Gift Ideas: 1940

    Theodor Horydczak

    71 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 09/16/2022 - 1:34pm

  • Feed Shed: 1936

    Theodor Jung

    13 photos in this gallery

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

  • Requiem Aeternam: 1865

    Thomas Roche

    5 photos in this gallery

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

  • At Ease: 1863

    Timothy O'Sullivan

    24 photos in this gallery

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

  • Tantucket: 1957

    Toni Frissell

    33 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 04/19/2023 - 10:17am

  • Rochester to L.A.: 1921

    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

  • Viny Houses: 1902

    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

  • Needful Things: 1935

    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

  • Old-School Barbecue: Planked Shad

    William Cruikshank

    4 photos in this gallery

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

  • Prince Albert: 1964

    William Gedney

    19 photos in this gallery

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

  • Jazzdance: 1947

    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

  • Gettysburg: 1865

    William Morris Smith

    3 photos in this gallery

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

  • Against the Wind: 1902

    Wright Brothers

    12 photos in this gallery

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

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