ridingfunny
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Child Laborers in 1880
Woman with Kodak camera, c1900
Female prisoners at the Andaman Cellular Jail, India 1860
The Shambles,York. 1880.
Children New York 1880
U.S. Quartermasters Dept., photograph taken November 1864
Brooklyn Cable Car System Under Construction, 1880
Family portrait of an English colonial official with his Indian servants - Northeast India c.1880
The last Mughal Emperor of India, Bahadur Shah in 1858 before his exile to Burma. This is possibly the only photo ever taken of a Mughal Emperor.
Kids playing beside a decaying horse, years before any sanitation efforts were implemented. Late 1880’s. New York
Chinese Opium Den, circa 1880
Runaway Slave Ads in the June 14th, 1830 issue of “Georgia Courier.”
Brisbane’s first railway carriage, ca.1868
Paris 1890
pice Bazaar somewhere in British India, 1875
Making spoons. Russian Empire, 1897
Wall Street, 1883
On July 1, 1893, at the excavation of Delphi near the Temple of Apollo, archaeologists uncovered a near-perfectly preserved, still-upright statue of Antinous, the lover of the Roman Emperor Hadrian.
American town n men 1850
Train Wagon, 1895
Roses, 1860
Greyfriars Cemetery Edinburgh c. 1850
Times of India office in Bombay , 1898
Constant Puyo, Au Jardin Fleuri ,1899
Fine day in London, 1896
Somewhere in France 1899
A house in France 1890
1900
Bossetti, Lago di Como, via Sa Bellagio Salita, Circa 1875
Dresden Castle at Night, 1870s
London, 1899
Paris 1900
egonspenglersepididymis
Cool that some of these are clearly early photography as an art form, not just as a novelty.
AnusStufferPro
First one looks like a scene from the peeky blinders!
makeusmirk
Opium "den"? Looks like after the photo they were "Alright, let's go back to playing polo."
cjarocha
Love these.
AndSewOn
Normally I'm against kids smoking but, dang, if you got a job and all...
robsc16
Pretty sure the Russian guys making the spoons also made their own bowls, which they used to give themselves haircuts.
zeska
Guy on the left in the Quartermasters pic looks like Eddie Redmayne
Allhailmidgetgoat
And people today say "I was born in the wrong era!" Bitch shut up and eat your fifth big Mac.
JesusInVegas
Sometimes I think I would have liked to live in the late 1800s, but then I remember air conditioning
reidft
And vaccines. Electricity. Hygiene. Labor laws. Gabe the Dog. Sometimes I need to stop and remember how good we have it
ltoka00
Love looking at old photos of another era
mindolluin
Wow these are new to me! I mean old...
IJustThatSinceYouSaidWeDo
Doses haven't changed in over 100 years...crazy how nature do dat
IJustThatSinceYouSaidWeDo
Edit: Roses
usernamealreadyistaken
Interesting. Take my upvote.
NotQuiteDeadYetPool
#10, isn't that gutter also the sewer?
hotdogtime
Well they are chillin next to a dead horse so let's say yes.
SuperChunk89
The child labourers in the first picture are tougher than 99% of adults today.
ClickityDoucheBabaGanoosh
Once again an awesome post by OP. Thank you! So fascinating. Those newspapers for runaway slaves. Wow.
thelostg
Cool pics. Thanks!
DonkeyMilk
Those kids in #1 are older than I'll ever be
RonnyTrapattoni
#31 nowadays http://imgur.com/qQzdLsP
Quenya3675
Shorpy.com has thousands of old photos for your perusing pleasure. Been going there for years.
ridingfunny
Great ! Thanks for sharing. I have a good amount of classic images, but never knew of this site ! Today was a good day !
jaggcomputing5
Most excellent, thank you.
barehandaflyingaidsrat
The Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 was an informal agreement between the US & Japan that agreed to limit immigration between the 2 countries
devasto
This is why I like shows like Copper and Ripper Street; although they're fictional, but they don't shy away from the ugliness of the past
denigreur
ah the 1800's. When the men were men. Women were men. And children were men
OldmanSerious
And horses slept in the gutter after a long night out
cpw29
LOVE these!
GreenPie54
The first one is literally the cover of an album by the Walkmen
OldmanSerious
#1 so you don't have to scroll
ClickityDoucheBabaGanoosh
It is! That's where I recognized it from. I have that cd. Thanks for pointing that out!
GreenPie54
Great CD. I miss that band.
devasto
So did they make the picture for the album, or did they use a pre existing photo for the album?
theroostersayscocorico
It's a photo of newsies by Lewis Hine from 1910. Not sure where OP is getting his/her info. It's a photo from the metmuseum archives.
GreenPie54
I was just pointing out that these photos aren't exactly rare.
theroostersayscocorico
Sauce: http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/259797
somepeoplecallmeyou
Where do you get these from ? Just curious
ridingfunny
:)
Dsoir
París 1890 , London1896 and Dresden 187x look like drawings or too much digital enhancing
shhep
Uh, dude, no. That's how non-film photos look.
Dsoir
only said that they looked like it, not that they were. Seeing the pictures on a PC changes the image and now I can see that they are photos
Dsoir
when I saw them on my pad they looked different. for example the Paris had a gradient of blue hue to sepia from left to right, which implied
Dsoir
cyanotype and sepia toning having been used. It was just how my pad processed the image
shhep
Oh, I thought you were referring to wet colodion or daguerrotype artifacts, but as it turns out, you know your photographic stuff :D
Dsoir
Nope, just an amateur and I stick to 35mm, got 5 analog cams. I wish I had the time, money and chems for the real old school photography
LenoreO
Shambles still looks like that now
sparrow1889
Yep - just more tourists!
SirChadwellHeath
Just more adverts
(streetview)
LenoreO
Oh via vechia is still there love his bread
RadishIsAMeat
Was going to say York is still very much medieval in parts, my favourite city!
ProvidesYouNewShittyLinks
as would any big city in germany, if you didnt bomb them to carpet height, bloody island monkeys
LenoreO
I lived and worked there for a while in a shop.that was ina 16th century building nothing special just a shop
LenoreO
My kids used to play in the roman stone coffins inside the tower in the museum gardens
Anthraxwastaken
These are cool and all but can we stop calling them rare after they've been posted on a social media site?
JesusInVegas
Well I've never seen them before
ridingfunny
The rare stands and refers to the time stamp,meaning there arent many snaps you will see of that time period,unlike today when every passin+
ridingfunny
second of ones life ends up for the whole world to see,thanks to the social media ! So,the scarcity of time documentation for that period+
ridingfunny
makes, what ever little we have as rare ! ;)
HitlersRupturedColon
Neat
Anthraxwastaken
That makes a lot more sense, I'm used to people referring to the pictures themselves as rare