It is easy to forget, with all the shiny bells and whistles of digital, that photography wasn’t always something the masses had access to. Shorpy.com is a photo blog showcasing images taken a hundred years ago.

From the site

“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.”

Great idea and lots of fun for photography history geeks (guilty!).