Why should I buy a Membership when I can just see all these same images on Pinterest for free?

Yes, some of the images you’ll find here on ShowHistory.com you can also view for free on Pintrest and other such “image scavenging” sites. The difference is that here on ShowHistory.com as a Member you’ll see the images in their original format, most of the time larger than life-size, and with all the contextual and historic information about the image included. Many times the attributions and information on the free sites is wrong. Here at ShowHistory.com we take a scholarly approach, by trying to obtain primary and secondary sources for all of the information we collect. In addition, Members get to participate in an ongoing dialogue about the images in the archive via our comments section. We hope also to allow Members to make requests from the archive for more images of a certain type, or to request close-ups of certain details that are of interest. We see Membership as a collaborative process between ShowHistory and those who join.