Shorpy: The Amazing 100-Year-Old Photo Blog

Though we're all about modern art and photography here on theMET, we also love looking back into the past to pay respects to those that came before us. If you're looking for another site to bookmark, check out Shorpy.com, the 100-year-old photo blog. You could spend hours looking through their vintage photo collection of high-def images from the 1850s to the 1950s.

Time magazine named them one of the best blogs of 2010 saying, "Visiting Shorpy is like stumbling onto an old, dusty photo album in the attic. Except instead of finding portraits of Grandma and Grandpa, you'll see cool photos from around the world ("Always something interesting," as the blog describes itself). Each image is available in high resolution, making them perfect to print. There are more than 1,000 photos on the blog, and fans can pitch their own dusty favorites, adding to the collection."

Why the name Shorpy? The site was named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago.

(I'm sure many of you have already heard about this blog or seen it while cruising through the web. Either way, just wanted to give it some love today.)

Check out their website and then follow them on twitter for some amazing links around the web.