Framed or unframed, desk size to sofa size, printed by us in Arizona and Alabama since 2007. Explore now.
Shorpy is funded by you. Patreon contributors get an ad-free experience.
Learn more.
Vintage photos of:
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.
[REV 25-NOV-2014]
March 1942. "Alfred MacMillan, Pullman porter resting in the men's washroom aboard the 'Capitol Limited' bound for Chicago." Acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
November 1953. "Scrabble inventor Alfred Butts & promoter James Brunot posed with oversized game." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein from photos for the Look magazine assignment "For Women Only -- Word Rage." View full size.
Los Angeles, 1954. "Walt Disney with Mickey Mouse stuffed toy astride large world globe." Color transparency from photos by Earl Theisen for the Look magazine assignment "Here's your first view of Disneyland," a year before it opened in Anaheim. View full size.
September 10, 1957. "Integrated classroom at Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C." 35mm acetate negative by Warren K. Leffler for U.S. News & World Report. View full size.
January 1900. "Kop-kop-ki-hi (White Cottonwood). Photo shows Charley Van Pelt, a Yakama Indian man, half-length portrait, seated, facing right." Gelatin silver print by Lee Moorhouse (1850-1926) of Pendleton, Oregon. View full size.
February 1953. "Ernest and Mary Hemingway in Land Rover during safari in Kenya." Color transparency by Earl Theisen. Look magazine archive, Library of Congress. View full size.
February 1956. "Singer-actress Elaine Malbin, who performs in television production as Joan of Arc, in a gym vocalizing while using exercise equipment under the instruction of Joseph Pilates." Color transparency from photos by John Vachon for Look magazine. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1928. "C&P Tel. Co." Officers of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company. Do we have a quorum? National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.
February 1928. Washington, D.C., or vicinity. "Southern Railway, interior of car." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
August 1941. "Bean picker. Shawano County, Wisconsin." Our Lady of Legumes. Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1941. "Drug store. Carpentersville, Illinois." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1941. "At the Great Northern Railroad yards, cars of iron ore passing over the scales are weighed at the rate of three and a half a minute. Superior, Wisconsin." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1941. "Ore docks at Allouez, Wisconsin." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1941. "Ore puncher waiting for change of shift. Allouez, Wisconsin." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1941. "Underneath the ore docks. Allouez, Wisconsin." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.