A friend sent me a link to Shorpy:
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Shorpy.com is the 100-year-old photography blog that brings our ancestors back, at least to the desktop. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a boy who worked in an Alabama coal mine near the turn of the century.
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The site has been in business for about a year and a half and has posted thousands of pictures.
Posts like this - Raymond Bykes: 1911 - remind me that we are so greatly blessed:
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Raymond Bykes, Western Union No. 23, Norfolk Va. Said he was fourteen. Works until after one a.m. every night. He is precocious and not a little "tough." Has been here at this office for only three months, but he already knows the Red Light District thoroughly and goes there constantly. He told me he often sleeps down at the Bay Line boat docks all night. Several times I saw his mother hanging around the office, but she seemed more concerned about getting his pay envelope than anything else.
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I'll have my daughters spend some time checking out these pictures.
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