9/15/2007

Photos of 19th and 20th America's centuries

On Shorpy, the 100 year-old photo blog, you can travel by pictures in America's space and time.

Its design copies an old newspaper. You can browse using the different galleries, like cities and streetscapes, civil war, education, factories, industry and public works, sports and recreation, World War II and many more !

These few examples will show you its interest !


"Bill Norton, the bathing beach policeman, measuring the distance between knee and bathing suit on woman in Washington, D.C. Col. Sherrell, the Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, issued an order that bathing suits at the Washington bathing beach must not be over six inches above the knee. Photo from the National Photo Company Collection, 1922.""Gen. John F. Hartranft reading the death warrant to the four condemned Lincoln assassination conspirators (Mrs. Surratt, Payne, Herold, Atzerodt) on the scaffold at Fort McNair, Washington. July 7, 1865"


"Worker in bombardier nose section of a B-17F Navy bomber at the Douglas Aircraft plant in Long Beach, Calif. October 1942. The B-17F "Flying Fortress" is a later model of the B-17."


"Celebration on Wall Street upon the news of Germany's surrender in World War I. November 1918."

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