This website ArchivalPhotos.com is a portal for HumImages.com, a website that sells 8×10 prints. We call them archival photos, but these 8×10 prints are also known as vintage photos and historical photos too. As my next door neighbor used to say, “Whatever floats your boat, or bangs your shutters.” Or as that old song says, “You say tomato, I say tomato,” one pronunciation with a long A and the other with a short A.

Here in this blog post, you will find links, like this one, which will take you to a special collection at Hum Images which features historical cowboy photos. I personally took many of the cowboy photos on the website, like these:

Go to the website to see the full images with better clarity and many more images. Most of the historical cowboy photos I took were shot at ranches near Clarendon, Texas, a small town in the Texas panhandle. They were part of my photo exhibit, Cowboys, Cattle & Clarendon. My exhibit was shown at the local Chuck Wagon Cook-Off Festival and later at the Red River Museum in Vernon, Texas. My cowboy photography was also featured in the 8th Anniversary issue of American Cowboy Magazine.

I hate to think that photos I took in 1998 are now considered historical photos or archival photos. I mean really, they were just taken 22 years ago and I don’t feel a day older than when I took them. But seriously, people do consider these archival. And things have changed in the way cowboys were then and are now, maybe not a lot of things, but some things have changed. For one, maybe one of the cowboys in my photos had a cell phone. Now, almost every cowboy has a cell phone. Ranching operations have definitely changed over the years. I guess one could consider these images as historical, archival or vintage because they were taken in the previous century.

Here’s a link to a search for “cowboy photos” on the Hum Images website. Most of them are my own photos, but there are others from the 1970s, 1950s and even Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders appear in the search near the end. To avoid the cheerleaders, you can try your own search and include the words, “NOT cheerleaders.” That may work, but if not, just ignore those photos of them performing for sailors and soldiers.

Vintage cowboy photos would be good for any interior design which features an old west or cowboy theme. They are a less expensive alternative to original paintings or prints. They give a real sense of reality to a design for an office, a home, a hotel or anywhere else. Although we specialize in selling 8×10 historical prints, many of our cowboy photos can be enlarged to 11×14 or even 16×20 prints.

Thank you for being a customer and if you have not purchased from Archival Photos or Hum images, I hope you’ll become a customer soon.

Send an email if you have any questions. Thanks for reading, Brian (ArchivalPhotos.com / Hum Images)