Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Amazing 100-Year-Old Photo Blog

Amazing 100-Year-Old Photo Blog

Do you love high-quality vintage B&W photographs? How about history? If you do, then you must check out SHORPY. This site has an amazing collection of stunning black and white, and color, vintage photographs.

SHORPY describes itself as:

Shorpy.com | History in HD is a vintage photography blog featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s. The site is named afterShorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago.

Most of the photos on this site were extracted from reference images (high-resolution tiffs, 20 to 200 megabytes in size) from the Library of Congress research archive.

Check it out when you have a lot of free time, but be forewarned, this site is addictive.

Sitting Pretty: 1922

Sitting Pretty: 1922

Panamas: 1919

Panamas: 1919

New York Underground: 1904

New York Underground: 1904


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