Shorpy: The 100-year Old Photoblog

February 13, 2008

Powerhouse Mechanic and Steam Pump (1920). One of Lewis Wickes Hine's celebrated "work portraits" made after he completed his decade-long project documenting child labor [purchase here].

During the last months I have been increasingly interested in vintage photography and recently while Reading Cameron Davidson's blog I found a reference to a site on this topic that is really interesting: "Shorpy", The 100-year Old Photoblog. I found it so interesting that I wanted to refer to it here in this blog, just in case you are not aware of it.

At Shorpy you will find vintage and old pictures [see galleries] from the dawn of photography to the 1940s that not only are beautiful but, to make it even more interesting, you can purchase prints. The prints are created from high resolution TIFF scans and they command very reasonable [inexpensive] prices. The sizes range from small 5x7 inches (12.7 x 17.8 cm) to large prints 44x36 inches (111 x 91.4 cm), and include prints in fine art paper.

You will find there many of the images from the Library of Congress among many other pictures. If it happens that you own vintage prints and like to share them with the community, you can do so: join and add your image/s to the collection.

Miguel Garcia-Guzman

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