Legends of America’s Photo Prints
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
— Diane Arbus
Two photographers taking each other’s pictures with hand-held cameras while perched on a roof, early 20th Century.
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
— Ansel Adams
Kodak Girl, 1909
Long before the Legends of America website began, we were collecting digital vintage photographs, as well as bunches of other antique everythings. While traveling and writing about historic travel destinations, we’ve collected hundreds more digital images.
Today, we have thousands of vintage photographs representing everything from the mountains to the prairies, presidents to outlaws, the Civil War to Native Americans, and everything in between.
The major difference in our historic photographs, from others that you might find, is that each and every one of our vintage images have been painstakingly restored.
So many old photographs show significant wear and tear due to their age – having jagged edges, tears, spots, dust, and moisture damage. Plus, cameras, a hundred years ago, aren’t what they are now, often leaving behind “noise” (little dots and scratches), blurred images, and objects that take away from the photograph, such as a wire running across the sky. Our vintage photographs are never offered for sale until they have been carefully restored.
In the meantime, you will not only find our vintage photos enhancing our historic tales on the Legends of America; but, they are also available for photographic prints and editorial downloads.
Whether you’re looking for historic photos to decorate a room, give as a gift, or for commercial use in a book, video, or documentary; our photo collection is one of the best to be found — as far as the number of images available, quality, and pricing. This is so much so, that movie and television producers, museums, interior decorators, and restaurant designers, have utilized our photos in their projects
Go directly to our Photo Print Galleries.
Restoration Example:
Apache Leader Geronimo Before Restoration
Geronimo After Restoration
Photo Manipulation
Sometimes, in addition to restoring a vintage image, we also manipulate the original to brighten the image and to make it a more printable size, such as the 1954 Pennsylvania Dutch Float.
Pennsylvania Dutch Beer & Vanilla Ice Cream Float, 1954.
Despite its name of Birch beer, this beverage was not real beer, but was actually a beverage that was a carbonated soft drink made from herbal extracts and birch bark.
Pennsylvania Dutch Float, enhanced
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