Several years ago I bought a flatbed scanner with a slide adapter to scan some old film slides that my grandparents had. After I finished scanning those, I picked up several batches of slides from Goodwill and on eBay out of curiosity. I am not sure why these commonly wind up at such places but I know that at least some of them have ultimately come from estate sales. Maybe family members just don't know what to do with them. I've seen them advertised as being for arts and crafts but I was more interested in the actual contents. Each slide is literally a snapshot in history. These pictures span from as early as the late 1940s to as late as the early 1990s. There are thousands of these slides. I will be scanning some from time to time and posting them here as an interesting way to look back at the past.
When I say "batch" I mean a group of slides I bought in a single purchase. Usually they are from the same ultimate origin. Typically, a batch will have 100s or even 1000s of slides.
When I say "set" I mean a subset of a batch that I scan together. There are normally four slides in one set because that's how many slides my scanner can scan at once. Likewise, a post will typically have one set of four slides. It's just easier to keep track of that way.
This set contains photos spanning from as far back as at least 1959 to as recent as at least 1980. Other than these slides coming from eBay, I have no idea of their ultimate origin other than the clues provided in the photos themselves.
These were all scanned with an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner.
All of the photos in this set are from the very early 1970s.
The first photo is dated June 1970s and shows a man surrounded by some photographic equipment including a Polaroid Land Camera.
The second photo is dated June 1971 and is labeled "Red Rocks Theatre Denver". Like wise, when I search via Google images it tells me "The image appears to be a vintage photograph of the iconic Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre area in Colorado, likely taken from one of the rock formations looking down towards the valley."
The third is also dated June 1971 and is labeled "Old Town". It features a place called "Cowboy's Rest Café". While I couldn't find anything definitive on where this might have been, there are a couple of possibilities. The first is the town of Morrison, Colorado based on the fact that it is near Red Rocks Amphitheatre featured in the previous photo and has a historic downtown area referred to as "Old Town". The other candidate is Bryce, Utah which is featured in the next photo and has an area called "Old Bryce Town".
The last photo, also dated June 1971, is labeled "Bryce Utah" and so that is where I assume it was taken.
Red Rocks Theatre Denver
Old Town - Jun 1971
Bryce Utah
See the previous post in this series here.
The entire batch that has been scanned and uploaded so far can also be found here. This also includes higher resolution versions and versions with postprocessing.
Check out some of my other recent posts:
Info (September 1989)
@darth-azrael/info-september-1989
Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (033-036)
@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-6-033
Byte (November 1981)
@darth-azrael/byte-november-1981
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