Photo galleries

Our holdings include hundreds of glass and film negatives/transparencies that we've scanned ourselves; in addition, many other photos on this site were extracted from reference images (high-resolution tiffs) in the Library of Congress research archive. (To query the database click here.) They are adjusted, restored and reworked by your webmaster in accordance with his aesthetic sensibilities before being downsized and turned into the jpegs you see here. All of these images (including "derivative works") are protected by copyright laws of the United States and other jurisdictions and may not be sold, reproduced or otherwise used for commercial purposes without permission.

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Photo galleries

Circa 1950. "Homemaking cover for McCall's." Meet Mr. and Mrs. Al Dente, about to indulge in that exotic Italian import known as pasta. 4x5 inch Kodachrome by Toni Frissell. View full size.

The Gallery

Fine-art prints by Juniper Gallery on a variety of archival art papers.

15480 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 03/27/2026 - 10:58pm

It's the Friday before Christmas, time for a hallowed holiday tradition here at Shorpy: The Office Xmas Party! Which has been going on for 100 years now. Will Clarence in Sales ever get up the nerve to ask out Hermione from Accounting? Is there gin in that oilcan? Ask the bear.
December 1925. "Washington, D.C. -- Western Electric Co. group." There are enough little dramas playing out here to keep the forensic partyologists busy until Groundhog Day. 8x10 inch glass negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size.

Bizarre

Bizarre, weird, rare historical photos. Because that's what the Internet wants.

138 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 12/19/2025 - 1:02pm

Featured Contributors

Shorpy contributor galleries.

415 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 03/04/2023 - 8:07pm

From a discarded negative collection that belonged to a San Diego area barber. 120 format. View full size.

Member Gallery

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.

6069 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 06/28/2025 - 6:50pm

Circa 1910. "Surf bathers at crowded beach, possibly Atlantic City." Not sure if you can swim? There's always the rope! 5x7 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

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.

8839 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 03/25/2026 - 2:45pm

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.

627 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 03/27/2026 - 10:58pm

Photographers

15186 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 03/27/2026 - 10:58pm

September 1939. "Calf-scramble. Central Iowa Fair, Marshalltown, Iowa." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Agriculture

402 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 04/22/2025 - 3:24pm

We're starting a series that digs into the Shorpy archive to revisit some old favorites. This Lewis Hine photo was originally posted on February 27, 2007.

March 1912. "Row of tenements, 260 to 268 Elizabeth Street, New York, in which a great deal of finishing of clothes is carried on." 268 Elizabeth Street, in Little Italy, is now a "luxe sweater bar" called Sample; 258 (Kips Bay) is a handbag boutique called Token. Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.

Animals

930 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 02/28/2026 - 4:03pm

"Perisphere and ramp at 1939 New York Word's Fair." Corpulent counterpoint to the trimmer Trylon. Uncredited acetate transparency, possibly by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.

Art & Design

43 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 10/16/2022 - 4:15pm

Washington, D.C. "Prof. H.E. Burton, 8/5/29." A Star Search matinee. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

Astronomy

3 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 06/26/2013 - 10:51am

July 8, 1941. "Liberty Aircraft Corp., Farmingdale, Long Island, New York. Exterior, at night." 5x7 inch acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.

Aviation

309 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 12/03/2025 - 4:01pm

The photos you see here on Shorpy are not just resized versions of the images found in the Library of Congress archives -- they are extracted from the LOC's full-resolution reference tiffs: a process that generally takes anywhere from half an hour to several hours per monochrome image, depending on the amount of work that needs to be done to bring detail out of the shadows, suppress overexposed highlights, and remove blemishes caused by dust, scratches and mold. Color images require correction for color cast as well. The before-and-after composite above shows the condition of some of these old glass negatives a century after they were exposed, and how they look after a day at the digital restoration spa. This one is from 1908. View full size. Below is the 36 mb archival tiff resized to 512 px wide. The restored version is here.

Below is another before-and-after example. Restored version.

Below: Another monochrome example. Click to enlarge.

A more extreme example below. Click here to enlarge. Compare the full-size Shorpy image to the closest match on the LOC site.

Below: Underexposed, strong blue color cast.

Below: A final monochrome example. Negative by Ansel Adams. Click to enlarge.

Before & After

2 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 09/09/2011 - 10:15pm

Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of New York Avenue N.W., north side, looking west from 12th Street, showing A. Stuntz toy store at 1207 12th Street." Also a sign advertising the services of "Frank Shore, Expert Tire Repairer -- Vulcanizing a Specialty." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative from the Library of Congress D.C. Street Survey Collection. View full size.

Bicycles

... and tricycles!

252 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 11/22/2025 - 2:12pm

Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1904. "Dudley Street Station, Boston 'L' Railway." A scene last glimpsed here, 15 years ago. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Photographic Co. View full size.

Billboards

11 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 04/18/2025 - 6:09pm

Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of Eighth Street N.W., east side, looking south from E Street with side view of Rathskeller/Concordia Hall." And a glimpse of the elevated walkway seen earlier here. 5x7 inch glass negative, D.C. Street Survey Collection. View full size.

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.

967 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 11/23/2025 - 4:27pm

Boy Scouts

49 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 12/02/2023 - 7:50pm

July 1955. "Camp Sunapee, New Hampshire. Campers making popcorn on a rainy day at Pleasant Lake." Another of the more than 800 Kodachrome slides taken by Toni Frissell for the Sports Illustrated assignment "Boys' Camp." View full size.

Camping

101 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 08/03/2024 - 2:50pm

July 1, 1964. Here we are at the Midtowner Motel, in a Kodachrome slide donated by a fan of Shorpy. But where is the Midtowner Motel? Let us know in the comments below. View full size.

Cars, Trucks, Buses

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.

2524 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 02/02/2026 - 5:10pm

Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1915. "Old Public Market." Market Hall on Meeting Street, with signage advertising a "Collection of Confederate Pictures & Relics, Open to Visitors." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

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.

333 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 06/07/2025 - 11:03am

Colorized Photos

Vintage colorized photos from Shorpy contributors.

1140 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 08/25/2020 - 9:38am

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.

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.

18 photos in this gallery

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

September 1938. "Decorations in back room of bar. ('The things that take you to HELL.') Raceland, Louisiana." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Curiosities

114 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 10/31/2024 - 11:42am

June 1939. "Sons of day laborers in tent camp near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma. Some of their fathers were agricultural workers and some were dispossessed tenant farmers now on Works Progress Administration. The WPA work is holding many of these former tenant farmers in their communities, but they are all potential migrants. None of these children had ever attended school." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Dust Bowl

31 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 03/27/2018 - 10:48am

From the archives. This popular image was first posted to Shorpy on March 23, 2007. Also on the menu is more waffle. And even more waffle.

Entrance to the Waffle Shop at 522 10th Street NW, Washington D.C. Circa 1950 photograph by Theodor Horydczak. View full size.

Eateries & Bars

Restaurants, bars and pop stands.

371 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 03/16/2026 - 11:02am

Savannah, Georgia, circa 1908. "Oglethorpe Avenue, Chatham Academy and Independent Presbyterian Church." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Education, Schools

264 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 09/06/2024 - 4:17pm

Edwards Boy

Who was he, and what became of him? The answer is ... Out There. Maybe.

6 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 10/04/2012 - 2:54am

May 1956. Memphis, Tennessee. "Elvis Presley at home with his mother, Gladys." 35mm negative from photos by Philip Harrington for the Look magazine assignment "Elvis Presley -- He Can't Be, but He Is." View full size.

Elvis 1956

Photos of a 21-year-old Elvis Presley in 1956.

9 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 10/21/2018 - 11:06am

Factories

373 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 01/29/2026 - 7:14pm

March 1969. Pacific Palisades, California. "Soft Aluminum Group and chaise at the house (Dick Donges and Keith Hall carrying Eames lounge chair in a grassy field)." Color transparency from the Office of Charles and Ray Eames. View full size.

Farked

72 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 09/09/2023 - 4:33pm

Film Roll

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Washington, D.C. -- From around 1918-1922 comes this uncaptioned aerial view of firefighting equipment (and ginkgo trees) on H Street N.W. near the intersection with 14th Street. Who can tell us what happened here? 5x7 inch glass negative by Harris & Ewing. View full size.

        UPDATE: Thanks to the excellent detective work of Shorpy member Notcom, we can now say that this photo documents the aftermath of a fire at the American Forestry Association offices in the Maryland Building, 1408 H Street N.W., on the afternoon of Monday, October 13, 1919.

Fires, Floods etc.

116 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 03/30/2025 - 12:46am

Flatiron Building

Black-and-white historical photos of the Flatiron Building, a.k.a the Fuller Building, at Fifth Avenue and Broadway in Manhattan.

21 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 01/24/2016 - 10:26am

October 1958, somewhere in Pennsylvania. Big brother is ready for a night of trick-or-treating. Rob from the rich, and share with your understudy! Our fourth selection from a batch of Kodachrome slides found on eBay. View full size.

Found Photos

Slides, mostly Kodachromes, snagged on eBay. Plus the odd Ektachrome, Anscochrome or black-and-white snapshot.

241 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 10/31/2023 - 1:02pm

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Free iPhone Wallpaper

Download free iPhone Wallpaper. These historic images are cropped to fit perfectly on your iPhone.

31 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 09/11/2008 - 9:20am

June 1939. "Morris State Bank, founded by Charles Morris (at right) during the boom days. Closed at present. Pony, Montana." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the FSA. View full size.

Frontier Life

77 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 04/30/2025 - 9:23pm

July 4, 1939. "Fourth of July celebration -- St. Helena Island, South Carolina." 35mm color transparency by Marion post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Gas Stations

Filling stations and garages from the 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.

315 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 07/04/2025 - 9:36am

Chelsea, Michigan, circa 1901. "Glazier Stove Company, machine room." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Glazier Stove Works

Photos from 1901 documenting the Glazier Stove factory in Chelsea, Michigan.

16 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 03/05/2017 - 9:02pm

From the archives. This Dorothea Lange photo was first published here on March 31, 2008

California, March 1937. "Toward Los Angeles." View full size. Medium format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration.

Great Depression

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.

212 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 03/06/2026 - 9:23am

On this Labor Day 2024, Shorpy wishes everyone a meaningful and at least momentary break from toil.
"Powerhouse Mechanic and Steam Pump" (1921). One of Lewis Wickes Hine's celebrated "work portraits" made after his decade-long project documenting child labor. View full size.

Handsome Rakes

54 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 09/02/2024 - 12:40pm

January 29, 1921. Washington, D.C. "Herbert Bell and Joe Garso." Evidently lost to history. Does anyone out there remember them? Two final pics in the comments. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

Herb & Joe

Herbert Bell and Joe Garso, one-legged bicycle riders.

4 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 08/13/2013 - 4:09pm

Holidays

445 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 12/25/2025 - 1:44am

1899. "Maumee River front, Toledo, Ohio." (Non-panoramic version here.) Detail of 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Industry & Public Works

105 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 03/15/2025 - 5:47pm

Iola S.

Miss Iola Swinnerton, First Lady of Shorpy. Current occupation: Angel.

12 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 12/24/2024 - 4:00pm

Winter 1942. Washington, D.C. "Jewel Mazique on temporary duty checking filing systems in the Library of Congress." 4x5 inch acetate negative by John Collier for the U.S. Office of the Coordinator of Information. View full size.

Jewell Mazique

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.

6 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 01/16/2023 - 8:22pm

Kids

An assortment of teens, tots, juveniles, youngsters, girls, boys and babes.

2204 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 03/25/2026 - 2:45pm

Kitchens etc.

363 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 03/27/2026 - 10:58pm

Krazy Kat Club

5 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 01/19/2025 - 3:27pm

June (maybe May?) 1939. "Ghost mining town. Pony, Montana." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Landscapes

147 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 04/27/2025 - 12:28pm

Circa 1900. "Harry Houdini (1874-1926), full-length portrait, standing, in chains." McManus-Young Collection, Library of Congress. View full size.

Magic & Spiritualism

7 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 01/21/2019 - 3:10pm

New York circa 1910. "Putnam Building from Seventh Avenue and Broadway (Times Square)." Home to a variety of merchants and practitioners, as well as a Shanley's restaurant; across W. 44th Street we see the Hotel Astor. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

Medicine

213 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 05/20/2025 - 3:43pm

Mining

257 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 04/30/2025 - 9:23pm

May 1949. Washington, D.C. "Charles Farrar on Harley-Davidson motorcycle." 4x5 inch acetate negative by the African-American photographer Robert H. McNeill (1917-2005). View full size.

Motorcycles

Photos of motorbikes like the Harley-Davidson and Indian as well as motorized bicycles.

60 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 12/16/2024 - 3:38pm

February 1943. Albuquerque, New Mexico. "Photographs show the modern city and 'Old Town' Albuquerque." Now playing at the "Pueblo Deco" Kimo on Route 66: Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt." Acetate negative by John Collier for the Office of War Information. View full size.

Movies

244 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 07/29/2024 - 9:58pm

March 1943. "Gallup, New Mexico. Houses for Indian and Mexican workers employed at the Santa Fe Railroad shops." Photo by Jack Delano, Office of War Information. View full size.

Native Americans

American Indians -- actual, pretend, and cultural derivatives.

36 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 02/18/2025 - 3:03pm

May 1942. Kremmling, Colorado. "Soldiers from Fort Logan hitchhiking along U.S. Highway 40." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

On the Road

67 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 02/18/2022 - 2:15pm

Painfully Obvious Photoshoppery

0 photos in this gallery

Patriotic

77 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 07/04/2025 - 9:36am

December 12, 1967. Wheaton, Maryland. "Shoppers walk past People's Drug and Christmas decorations at Wheaton Plaza shopping center." Back when "shopping days until Christmas" was a thing. 35mm negative by Warren K. Leffler for U.S. News & World Report. View full size.

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.

40 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 12/15/2024 - 4:25pm

New York, May 1947. "Teddy Kaye, Vivien Garry (last seen here) and Arvin "Arv" Charles Garrison at Dixon's." Photo by Down Beat contributor William Gottlieb. View full size.

Performing Arts

309 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 02/08/2026 - 6:12pm

Photochrom

Chromolithographs, generally postcards, made by the Detroit Publishing Co. using the Photochrom process.

1 photo in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 04/04/2014 - 1:26pm

Savannah, Georgia, circa 1937. "Davenport house, Columbus Square." 8x10 inch acetate negative by Frances Benjamin Johnston. View full size.

Piscatorial Downspouts

1 photo in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 08/30/2012 - 11:05am

Milwaukee, 1900. "Hotel Pfister." Completed in 1893, and still standing at Wisconsin Avenue and Jefferson Street. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Politics

92 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 05/01/2025 - 7:06pm

April 1960. Los Angeles. "June Lockhart, Jon Provost and the eponymous star of the CBS television series 'Lassie'." View full size.
June Lockhart, Beloved Television Mother, Dies at 100
        June Lockhart, the soft-spoken actress who exuded earnest maternal wisdom and wistful contentment in two very different mid-20th-century television roles, on the heartwarming children's series "Lassie" and the futuristic "Lost in Space," died on Thursday at her home in Santa Monica, Calif. She was 100. -- New York Times

Portraits

422 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 12/24/2025 - 1:38pm

For your Halloween enjoyment we present "The Commercial Vampire," a Leon Barritt cartoon from the July 20, 1898, issue of Vim, a short-lived satirical weekly published in New York. Painting department stores as bloodthirsty predators of small independent businesses, the same argument made today in some quarters against giant retailers like Wal-Mart and Amazon. View full size.

Posters

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.

31 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 11/01/2013 - 9:33am

Pretty Girls

377 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 03/27/2026 - 10:58pm

December 1941. "Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas Island, Virgin Islands. A colored doll in one of the houses in a slum area." Photo by Jack Delano. View full size.

Public Figures

81 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 03/06/2019 - 4:03pm

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.

1391 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 03/06/2026 - 9:23am

July 1942. "Nyssa, Oregon. Japanese-American boys at the newsstand on their weekly visit to town." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Office of War Information. View full size.

Relocation Camps

World War 2 Japanese-American relocation camps.

27 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 09/01/2022 - 10:13am

May 1943. "Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Rural life along the Ohio River. Mamie Fergusen Mayme Ferguson, wife of the local junior high school principal, wringing out clothes in the basement." Acetate negative by Arthur Siegel for the Office of War Information. View full size.

Rural America

379 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 05/31/2025 - 10:01am

Circa 1907. "The Water Tower -- Fort Thomas, Kentucky." Combining a 100,000-gallon standpipe and Spanish-American War memorial. View full size.

S-A War

Spanish-American War photos

6 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 10/02/2014 - 2:34pm

June 1953. "Howdy Doody Show's Clarabell the Clown (actor Nick Nicholson) pays a one-week visit to the Dolan family in Boone County, West Virginia, after Linda Dolan, daughter of coal mine foreman, was the winner of the 'I'd Like Clarabell to Visit Me Because' contest." From photos by Phillip Harrington for the Look magazine assignment "Clarabell Takes to the Hills." View full size.

Scary Clowns

Clowns that are scary. Which of course would be all clowns.

10 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 09/12/2017 - 8:05am

Columbus, Georgia, circa 1955. "Accident on 12th Street." Sandwiched between the post office and Collins Snack Bar. 4x5 acetate negative from the News Photo Archive. View full size.

Signal 30

Newspaper photos of 1950s car wrecks, generally around Oakland, California. 4x5 inch Kodak negatives.

46 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 01/07/2023 - 2:27pm

May 1942. Yes, it's this guy again, somewhere in Grand Island, Nebraska, snapped by John Vachon for reasons unknown. Cinch up that tie and get back to work! View full size.

Slender Man

The star of eight enigmatic, uncaptioned exposures credited to John Vachon. Shot in May 1942 in Grand Island, Nebraska.

3 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 03/08/2022 - 3:35pm

February 1957. "Ski school meeting place." An alternate view of yesterday's bunny-slopers, this is one of the 400-plus Kodachromes shot by Toni Frissell for the Sports Illustrated assignment "Skiing at Aspen, Colorado." Toni Frissell photo collection, Library of Congress. View full size.

Small Towns

533 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 01/08/2026 - 2:10pm

We're continuing our journey through the archives with this photo from Coney Island first posted to Shorpy on August 29, 2008.

Luna Park at Coney Island circa 1905. Tonight only: "Infant incubators with living infants." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Sports

774 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 03/25/2026 - 4:19pm

We're continuing our journey through the archives with this Jack Delano photo first published here on March 9, 2007. And Saba is still in business in 2026.

December 1940. "Secondhand plumbing store, Brockton, Mass." 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano. View full size. As of 2007, Saba Mechanical Plumbing & Heating is still in business in Brockton, at an address on Linus Avenue.

Stores & Markets

1303 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 03/01/2026 - 5:02pm

Kansas City, Missouri, circa 1901. "Union Depot (old station), Union Avenue." 5x7 inch glass negative from the Louis A. Marre Rail Transportation Photograph Collection. View full size.

Streetcars

Black-and-white historical photos of streetcars, trolleys and interurban railways from the early 20th century. Electric street railways and traction lines.

704 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 12/17/2025 - 7:58pm

Swimming

451 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 03/25/2026 - 2:45pm

Mrs. Beula Durrill Espy, of Van Horn, Texas shows off her cake at a picnic in west Texas, 1940. (Courtesy Portal to Texas History). View full size.

You can see more images from the Texas Mountain Trail, a coalition of west Texas museums, in our gallery.

Texas Mountain Trail

5 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 07/03/2009 - 12:18pm

Detroit. "Summer 1941. Group of girls." Three of the young ladies from that card game, and three more who evidently didn't make the cut. Acetate negative by Arthur Siegel. View full size.

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.

11 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 06/02/2024 - 6:06pm

"Dickey Christmas tree, 1915." The family of Washington lawyer Raymond Dickey, whose intriguingly off-kilter holiday photos are a Christmas tradition here at Shorpy. Feats of Strength, anyone? 8x10 inch glass negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size.

The Dickeys

Washington, D.C., lawyer Raymond Dickey and family, and Christmas tree.

10 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 12/21/2025 - 6:33pm

The Office

194 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 12/19/2025 - 1:02pm

Toadlike Autocrats

0 photos in this gallery

1909. "Entrance to The Kittatinny, Delaware Water Gap, Pa." Our second glimpse of this rustic resort in as many days. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Travel & Vacation

137 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 07/03/2025 - 12:00am

TV

Photos relating to television sets and television shows.

125 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 12/24/2025 - 1:38pm

"James Dawson, arrested for Indecent Exposure. North Shields Police Station, 9th June 1902." Our first image from a photograph album of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court in England between 1902 and 1916, now in the collection of the Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums. View full size.

Tyne & Wear

Photographs from the Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums in England, including mug shots from the North Shields police department.

1 photo in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 01/17/2012 - 11:41am

Circa 1905. Colorized Motor car, Canadian Government Colonization Co. Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

Very Old Ads

13 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 02/06/2011 - 7:06pm

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.

Weddings

33 photos in this gallery

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

May 27, 1944. "Collier's Florida -- Marine and girl in swimsuit," somewhere between the Halls of Montezuma and the Shores of Tripoli. 35mm Kodachrome transparency by the fashion photographer Toni Frissell for Collier's magazine. View full size.

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: Wed, 11/12/2025 - 3:04pm

October 7, 1921. Aberdeen, Maryland. "Military artillery on Ordnance Day." A demonstration at the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground of its 12-inch, 35-caliber M1895 gun on an M1918 railway carriage. 4x5 inch glass negative, Harris & Ewing Collection. View full size.

WWI

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Last updated: Sun, 03/30/2025 - 3:23pm

November 2, 1931. Washington, D.C. "Navy airship U.S.S. Akron over the Lincoln Memorial." 4x5 inch nitrate negative by Theodor Horydczak. View full size.

THE AKRON'S VISIT.
        The giant airship Akron arrived yesterday to salute the Capital on its first flight, after having been officially dedicated to Navy service on Navy Day. Accompanied by its older, slimmer sister, the Los Angeles, the Akron, bearing 108 men, circled over the city, dipped in salute to the White House, and gave Washingtonians their first chance to see the world's largest and newest dirigible. (Washington Post, 11.3.31)

Zeppelins & Blimps

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Last updated: Tue, 09/26/2023 - 7:48pm

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