100-Year Old Photos

Shorpy 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.

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clipped from www.shorpy.com New York to Paris: 1908 Lelouvier and driver in the Werner car, February 1908, at the start of the New York to Paris automobile race. The course was from Times Square to the Eiffel Tower via Alaska and Siberia. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection. Syracuse Varsity: 1908 Syracuse varsity crew team at the boathouse with coach Ten Eyck circa 1908. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection. Citizens Glass: 1908 October 1908. "Citizens Glass Co., Evansville, Indiana. Over ten small boys on day shift in one department." View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. The Virtual Buick: 1954 1954 Buick "Roadmaster" in a photograph taken as a study for painted illustrations in advertising, sales brochures, etc. View full size.