Shorpy: The Hundred Year Old Photo Blog
By James Grahame
Despite what the tag line says, Shorpy isn't a 100 year-old website, nor is it restricted to photos taken a century ago. But it is filled with fantastic high-rez vintage B&W and color scans from the late 1800s and early 1900s. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a lad who worked in an Alabama coal mine at the turn of the previous century.
The comments tend to be rather pithy as well, including one in which someone brazenly declared, "The picture is of far higher quality than existed in that era. It's obviously a fake." -- propogating the sad misconception that the world was but a blurry smear in the years before digital photography.
Shorpy: The decidedly modern blog filled with fascinating old photos


