Shorpy: Vintage Photo Blog

by Scott Beale on March 20, 2007 · 2 comments

Indian Manufacturing Co.

Shorpy is a wonderful photo blog featuring vintage photographs taken in US cities from around turn of the century up through the 1940’s.

Shorpy.com is a photo blog about what life a hundred years ago was like: How people looked and what they did for a living, back when not having a job usually meant not eating. We’re starting with a collection of photographs taken in the early 1900s by Lewis Wickes Hine as part of a decade-long field survey for the National Child Labor Committee, which lobbied Congress to end the practice. One of his subjects, a young coal miner named Shorpy Higginbotham, is the site’s namesake.

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photo credit: Lewis Wickes Hine (Indian Manufacturing Co.: 1911)

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1 richard March 21, 2007 at 10:52 am

my new favourite blog, heartbreakingly intense and beautiful material… i shall not get a lick of work done today.

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