March 16, 2007

World's oldest blog

Well not exactly, other people have blogged from an earlier time but still, this is pretty interesting. Check out Shorpy: From their website:
About This Site
Shorpy.com 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. We’re starting with a collection of photographs taken in the early 1900s by Lewis Wickes Hine as part of a decade-long field survey for the National Child Labor Committee, which lobbied Congress to end the practice. One of his subjects, a young coal miner named Shorpy Higginbotham, is the site’s namesake.
And who was Shorpy -- check out his page: Shorpy Higginbotham Some wonderful old photographs -- I went to school in Boston and spent a lot of time in New England. A lot of the photos are from that region and are places that I am familiar with. Cool to see the changes over time. Posted by DaveH at March 16, 2007 7:29 PM
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