Greek owners of the diner pictured serving African Americans in the early 1930s. Credit: Shorpy.com This powerful photo shot at a Greek-owned diner in Pittsburgh’s Hill District around the 1930s is an ...
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A young Alabama boy born in the late 1800s and nicknamed Shorpy is one of the most recognizable faces of the movement to abolish child labor at the beginning of the 20 th century. Henry Sharp "Shorpy" ...
If you love to look at old photographs, or if historic images of where and how your ancestors lived 100 or so years ago interest you, you will love Shorpy, http://www ...
Washington, D.C., circa 1911. "Flights and test of Rex Smith biplane flown by Antony Jannus. The plane with Rufus R. Bermann, wireless operator, and Fred Aubert."Harris & Ewing Collection glass ...
This row, on Pennsylania Avenue, which met its demise at the hands of the McMillan Plan that was conceived in 1902, was largely a commercial group of buildings that were as psychofrenic as the ...
Web wandering led me to old-timey photo site Shorpy.com, which has collected a handful of very cool pictures from Civil War-era Nashville. Marvel at the battle spectators! Swoon over the railroad yard ...
About 90 years ago, the Tidal Basin was a swimming hole. To take a dip, the proper women of the District—clad in chaste, heavy swim dresses and bathing caps—had to line up to have the distance from ...
My new favorite blog in the whole wide world is Shorpy, "the 100-year-old photo blog." It’s just what it says: it collects old pictures. That description doesn’t do it justice, though. It’s ...