Shorpy

[Gold Metal Flake]

http://www.shorpy.com/

"About This Site
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."

Enjoy the young faces, filthy from toil, of the gilded age.



edit: pix added

[Gold Metal Flake]

1. Kick for anyone who might be interested.

[smtpgirl]

2. I found this site interesting

and informative, thanks Opposite Reaction

[Gold Metal Flake]

4. Your welcome. I found it linked from another fav pix site.

http://www.plan59.com/main.htm

Vintage adversising art, expertly scanned and prepped.
I visit the NEW section several times a week.

Here is another photo website, seems to be related to Shorpy, with pix from the American western expansion.

http://www.ghostcowboy.com/

[crim son]

3. This is a fascinating site and I've bookmarked it. Wow. n/t