Shorpy: The 100 Year Old Photo Blog

The Shorpy photoblog features photography from days gone by, creating a unique window into the past. Paging through the site is surprisingly transporting—a sampling of varied years, locations and people creates a sense of casual social history that I've not quite experienced before. The site is named for boy miner Shorpy Higginbotham, who's grubby face looks out startingly from four photos taken at an Alabama coal mine in 1910. Pictured: Harlem, 1943 by Gordon Parks. [via Doane Paper]