Remarkable collection of historic photographs

I enjoy looking at old photographs. Thanks Laura.

Here is a site with loads of high res old photographs: http://www.shorpy.com/
 
Thanks Laura! Pictures are really good to time travel. How some of them makes us feel nostalgic...
 
Shows that people were humorous back in time. Not rigid and stone wall as we think of them now. (which tells more of us, than of them . . . ) I like looking people on the old photos, it is interesting how intense and live they were looking. Even in some casual situation when they thought no one is looking at them. At least they are looking more live and intense than majority of modern people, especially westerners. Majority of modern people are looking more or less as empty dolls . . .

Shorpy and Retronaut are great sites, I follow them for years. Also there are great photos on Flickr, but you must search for them.
 
I enjoyed watching this, thanks for posting - it sure was a trip into the past...
 
Thanks for posting these collections. Fascinating to see.

Some weeks ago, I saw photograph collection from the Victorian era, where families would pose with their recent deceased loved ones - they even looked very life-like. Very creepy to see, but it would appeared that it was very common for that time.
 
It always amazes me to see how anthropocentric and vain our culture and existence has become. Just about the only pictures in the OP that I found noteworthy were the arrival of the first banana in Norway, and Hachiko before his burial.
The rest... human vanity fluff from the past.
 
asino said:
It always amazes me to see how anthropocentric and vain our culture and existence has become. Just about the only pictures in the OP that I found noteworthy were the arrival of the first banana in Norway, and Hachiko before his burial.
The rest... human vanity fluff from the past.
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You've chosen your forum name well.... :evil: :cool2:
 
Speaking of old photographs, there is this mystery about a "phantom girl". There are more pictures in the link.

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Serious and immaculate, her haunting image is barely visible on tsarist-era Krasnoyarsk pictures, only spotted now, with new technology.

The best guess is that the mystery girl with the long plait is aged between 8 and 10, and she makes a - usually - 'bit part' appearance on photographs of buildings and sights in this historic city. In all, she appears in some 20 pictures and four glass negatives, which are kept in Krasnoyarsk Regional Museum of Local Lore.

Some were used for postcards of the city: yet over many decades no-one commented on the hardly visible well-dressed girl. So much so that for more than a century, her presence has gone unnoticed in photographs of Krasnoyarsk which were widely distributed as postcards and posters.

On a few shots, she is more evident, but is never quite the main focus of the photograph.
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So now Krasnoyarsk museum tries to find out the identity of the girl, that could be photographers daughter or other relative.
 
I enjoyed that too, thank you! And I agree with Avala that many of the bizarre ones were probably meant to be humorous. Others, they just had a really bad sense of what it was a good idea to include in a photo composition! :P
 
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