{{Short description|Vintage Photography Blog}} '''Shorpy.com''' is a vintage photography blog. It posts digitally enhanced photographs acquired from a variety of sources, including the Library of Congress and National Archives. Most of the photographs presented on the website date to the early twentieth century.<ref>{{cite news|title=5 Things We Love|newspaper=Honolulu Star - Advertiser|date=16 September 2011}}</ref> Former newspaper editors Dave Hall and Ken Booth run the site.<ref>{{cite news|last=Judkis|first=Maura|title=Time travelers|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=8 December 2011|quote=Shorpy, a straightforward curated site of historic photos from the Library of Congress, was one of the first. It is run by Dave Hall, a former copy editor for The Washington Post.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Kelly|first=Kate|title=America As It Once Was: A Daily Gift|newspaper=Huffington Post|date=5 November 2011|quote=A few years ago, journalists Ken Booth, who worked at the Orlando Sentinel, and David Hall, an editor at the Washington Post, started devoting nights and weekends to creating a website. . .}}</ref>
==Namesake== {{Main|Shorpy Higginbotham}} The blog is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a child laborer who worked as a greaser in an Alabama coal mine.<ref>{{cite news|last=Mitchell|first=Joe|title=www.shorpy.com|date=19 April 2007|newspaper=Hawkes Bay Today|page=A8}}</ref> His portrait is Shorpy.com's logo. Higginbotham was killed in a mining accident in 1928.<ref>{{cite news|last=Rondeau|first=Mark E.|title=Historic images spur search for Hine's subjects|newspaper=Bennington Banner|date=14 April 2007}}</ref>
==Media reception== Shorpy.com has received acclaim from a variety of media outlets, including ''The Washington Post'',<ref>{{cite news|last=Bell|first=Melissa|title=Everything old is new again online|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=6 November 2011|page=T5}}</ref> ''Time'',<ref>{{cite news|last=Fletcher|first=Dan|title=Best Blogs--Shorpy|url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1999770_1999761_1999755,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100701222640/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1999770_1999761_1999755,00.html|url-status=live|archive-date=July 1, 2010|access-date=25 December 2012|newspaper=Time Magazine|date=28 June 2010}}</ref> ''The Guardian'',<ref>{{cite news|title=The Guide: internet: Blog Roll: Photography|newspaper=The Guardian|date=31 March 2007}}</ref> ''The Times'',<ref>{{cite news|last=Bjortomt|first=Olav|title=Blog of the week|newspaper=The Times|date=21 April 2007|page=13|quote=There are numerous photo blogs around, but you may well be tired of empty displays of camera technique. Shorpy provides a unique and refreshing alternative. "The 100-year-old photo blog" concentrates on intriguing pictures from the distant past.}}</ref> and ''The Independent''.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Life Browser|newspaper=The Independent|date=24 August 2009|quote=Lifebrowser just discovered Shorpy, a 'a vintage photography blog featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s'. Each image has an enlightening caption to bring it to life. It is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner and one of the subjects.}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{Official site|http://www.shorpy.com/}}
Category:Photoblogs Category:American blogs Category:American photography websites
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