Vintage Pop

All the hip kids are pointing to Shorpy, a new old kind of photo blog. According to the 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.

Here’s an example of the sorts of images Shorpy shares:

There’s lots to like in this photo: the newsboys in dirty woolen suits, the stacks of newspapers, the boy with one leg, the bank building in the background. Shorpy is an excellent site. I look forward to more!