Author Topic: The 100-year-old photography blog that brings our ancestors back.  (Read 326 times)

January 17, 2008, 05:00:35 PM
  • Jr. Member
  • **
  • Posts: 97
  • Country: us
    • Travel - Visit Tourist Holiday Vacation Destinations around the World

Shorpy.com is the 100-year-old photography blog that brings our ancestors back,
 at least to the desktop. What do they have to tell us? The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a boy who worked in an Alabama coal mine near the turn of the century.

Shorpy Higginbotham, an oiler on the tipple at Bessie Mine near Dora in Jefferson County, Alabama. December 1910.
 Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.

November 1909. Blowing bottles. Night shift at the Cumberland Glass Works in Bridgeton, New Jersey.
 Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.

1921. "Bathing Beach." Taking the waters somewhere along the Potomac River at Washington, D.C.
National Photo Company Collection.

1941. At the picnic grounds in Vale, Oregon. "Interlude, after watching the Fourth of July parade."
 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee.


Site and design © 2007 shorpy.com
« Last Edit: January 17, 2008, 05:25:06 PM by TouristTeddys »