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 late 1960s or early 1970s.
The first slide is undated but likely taken in the late 1960s or very early 1970s. It features three older ladies. Another shot of these same three ladies appeared in an earlier set. The necklace the lady on the right is wearing looked like a pig for some reason in the earlier photo but it's pretty clear here that it is a large German style cross.
The second slides also doesn't have a date stamped on it but it is labeled "Tim & Scott Baseball 67" so this is presumably a baseball game from some time in 1967.
The last two photos are both stamped with the date June 1971 and are labeled 'Bryce Utah'.
Tim & Scott Baseball 67
Bryce Utah
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:
Electronic Gaming Monthly (December 1993)
@darth-azrael/electronic-gaming-monthly-december-1993
Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (041-044)
@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-6-041
Digital Archaeology: Floppy Disk #14 – AUG94.DOC
@darth-azrael/digital-archaeology-floppy-disk-14-56ab0cad1cb8
Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (037-040)
@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-6-037
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Books I am reading or have recently read:
Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling.
You Like It Darker by Stephen King.
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