Historical photographs on Shorpy

[Lindorm]

Recently, I came upon a blog collecting and publishing historical photographs from various US sources. The photos are frm the civil war era up to the 1970'ies, with the majority being from the 1910-40'ies. It's a wild mix pf pictures -1940'ies propaganda photos showing how the railroads contribute to the war effort, farmers migrating from the dust bowl, someones family christmas photos from the fifties...

Quite a few of the pictures are from middle-format cameras or even glass plates, which mean that the high-resolution scans have brethtaking detail, and you can really spend ages poring upon the littlest little details in a street scene -the decoration of lamp posts in a street scene from Sacramento or whatever.

Take a look, but be warned -it's easy to lose yourself in the collections! 

http://www.shorpy.com/

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Was this what brought you there perchance?
http://www.shorpy.com/historical-railroad-and-train-photos

[Lindorm]

Actually, someone sent me a link to this photo:

http://www.shorpy.com/node/6458

-but I did manage to find the railway collection, too and have given it a slight perusal 

[Aggie]

Very cool.  Can someone bump this thread occasionally, lest I forget it?

[Opsa]

Bumpety bump bump!

This site is really cool too: Old Pictures