I decided to indulge my curiosity after getting a new scanner a few years ago and picked up several batches of slides from Goodwill and eBay. I'm not sure why these commonly wind up at places like eBay but many seem to ultimately have come from estate sales. Maybe family members just don't know what to do with them or don't care. I've seen them advertised as being for crafts and such so maybe they are commonly used for that purpose. I was more interested in the actual contents. Each slide is a little slice of history from a particular time and place. 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 mainly because I find them an interesting way to look back at the past.
I don't know a whole lot about the ultimate origins of this batch of slides other than they came from Goodwill. Like previous batches, these too often have a date stamped on them that I assume indicates when the film was developed and I believe in most cases should give approximate dating for the photograph itself. So far these seem like mostly vacation photos that were taken in the 1960s and 1970s. I've identified places in Italy, France, Mexico, and Hawaii so far.
Batch = A bunch of slides I bought in a single purchase. Usually they are from the same ultimate origin but not necessarily. Typically, a batch will have 100s or even 1000s of slides.
Set = Subset of a batch. A group of slides 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 fours slides. Organizationally, it's just the easiest way for me to handle things.
All of the photos in this set were processed in August 1970 which means they were all likely taken in Italy based on photos from previous sets with the same date
The first photo shows a small girl at a restaurant or café. I believe there were one or more close up photos of the people at the next table over so my assumption is that they were all together.
The second photo whos the interior of a building that is being remodeled. There's lots of windows so I'm assuming this is going to be a restaurant or perhaps some kind of retail space.
The third photo shows the Chiesa di Santa Maria della Spina which is a small Catholic church in Pisa that dates to around 1230. There have been other photos of this church from different angles in previous sets.
The last photo shows the exterior of the Sinopie Museum in Pisa. This museum is famous for displaying the preparatory drawings (sinopias) for the frescoes in the galleries of the Camposanto next to the Duomo in Pisa, Italy. Personally, I like this photo for the slice of life it shows going on...vendors selling their wares on the sidewalk, the old cars parked and going down the street, a mother who just bought her daughters Gelato from the ice cream truck (ok, more like gelato motorbike), etc.
processed August 1970
processed August 1970
processed August 1970
processed August 1970
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 post processing.
Check out some of my other recent posts:
BYTE: The Small Systems Journal (June 1981)
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Vintage Photos - Goodwill Lot 1 (381-384)
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How do you post on Hive?
@darth-azrael/how-do-you-post-on
Vintage Photos - Goodwill Lot 1 (377-380)
@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-goodwill-lot-1-8d9f8de47d703
PC Magazine (August 7, 1984)
@darth-azrael/pc-magazine-august-7-1984
Vintage Photos - Goodwill Lot 1 (373-376)
@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-goodwill-lot-1-ef0109160a30b
Check out my other Social Media haunts (though most content is links to stuff I posted on Hive or reposts of stuff originally posted on Hive):
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Books I am reading or have recently read:
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr by Nancy Isenberg
Tom Clancy's Op-Center: God of War by Jeff Rovin
Red Sails Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
