Shorpy

Shorpy bills itself as the 100-year-old photo blog. In fact, this visual blog specializes in photos through the sixties. Everything from Ebay finds to famous photographers are posted here and can often be ordered to live where you do.

Landscapes and cityscapes, home snaps to national archives, these photos are mesmerizing. Check the Kodachromes for some serious color inspiration. And the name? From a tough little miner captured in several of the site's photographs.

Shorpy also links to sites that sell prints of patent designs, crate labels and propaganda posters. Don't click out until you hit the Shorpy shop with prints by Juniper gallery.

400+ affordable prints
Style: Small glossies & museum-grade cotton rag mattes
Sizes: 8x10 up to 44x36
Prices: $14 to $300

1957, Florida

Office of War Information meets art meets social commentary.

Gorgeous color palette from 1940s Puerto Rico with a patio as seen in many modernist landscaping plans these days.

Another Office of War Information shot by David Bransby.

A fashion photo by Toni Frissell, 1947.

Thanks again, Office of War Information - by Jack Delano.

Comments (4)

One of the cool things about following links in AT is that you can find a source for photographs as applied to the article, or you can find something more meaningful.

Shorpy.com was named after Henry Sharpe Higginbotham, ostensibly nicknamed Shorpy, who was a child laborer, a greaser in Bessie Mine in Alabama. Lewis Hine was a photographer who captured the photos of many American child laborers of that era and Joe Manning is a person who is taking the time to research the people in these photos, and giving them their due in historical note.

http://www.morningsonmaplestreet.com/aboutlewishine2.html

I am someone who also found the taught subject of history very boring, as Joe Manning did, but find myself captivated in whatever bios he can turn up for the subjects of these photographs. I appreciate the link for a way to obtain period snapshots superficially rendered as artful for profit to the site, but I wanted to make sure Joe Manning's Lewis Hine Project was also given attention.

posted by K T G on June 28th 2008 at 11:25am
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I just wanted to make sure you realize this site is valuable historical record and isn't just a lot of "cool old vacation photos."

posted by K T G on June 29th 2008 at 5:59am
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I just LOVE that car in the first photo - can anyone tell me what make and model it is?

posted by Violetsrose on June 30th 2008 at 3:04am
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http://www.shorpy.com/1960-chevrolet-parkwood#comment-19557

"This is a 1960 Chevrolet Parkwood. Parkwoods and Kingswoods both use Bel Air trim (mid-level). The Kingswood, a nine-passenger wagon, has the third-row rear-facing seat, and two steps on the rear bumper (one on each end just outside of where the tailgate would come down). Less obvious is that all Kingswoods have power tailgate windows, an option on the other Chevrolet wagons."

This car is featured in quite a stack of family vacation photos taken over several summers that were put up on eBay.

posted by K T G on June 30th 2008 at 4:20am
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