THE 100-YEAR-OLD PHOTO BLOG

 

Shorpy.com | History in HD is a vintage photo blog featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago.


I find this to useful.... helps me realistically IMAGINE what my grandparents may have looked like....how Mollie and Travis may have live in rural Mississippi.

The facts of this Photo:   Washington, D.C., circa 1916. "Slaves reunion. Lewis Martin, age 100; Martha Elizabeth Banks, age 104; Amy Ware, age 103; Rev. Simon P. Drew, born free." Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, 921 N Street N.W. Washington, D.C.