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.
What I mean by "batch" and "set" because sometimes I even contuse myself:
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 are from 1966 but they are scattered across a few different months.
The first photo was processed in August 1966 and appears to have been taken from a car. The landscape to me suggests Hawaii. However, other photos in this set are from Mexico and Italy.
The second photo was processed in June 1966 and Google is able to identify it as being the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna, Italy
The third photo was processed in September 1966 and also based on a Google search, it appears to be of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. There have been a couple of other photos from this location in previous sets.
The last photo was also processed in September 1966 and appears to feature a flower shop. This was also most likely taken in Mexico.
processed August 1966
processed June 1966 (Mausoleum of Galla Placidia)
processed September 1966 (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
processed September 1966
See the previous post in this series here.
The entire collection 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:
Antic (May 1985)
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Brevard Renaissance Fair 2020: Pub Sing (6) - Here's a Health to the Company
@darth-azrael/brevard-renaissance-fair-2020-pub-36c7e11493d01
Vintage Photos - Goodwill Lot 1 (245-248)
@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-goodwill-lot-1-7c9fb3418ef5d
PC World (December 2005)
@darth-azrael/pc-world-december-2005
Duke Nukem: A Time to Kill (PlayStation)
@darth-azrael/duke-nukem-a-time-to
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):
Wordpress: https://www.megalextoria.com/wordpress
Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/darth-azrael
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Darth_Azrael
Blogger: https://megalextoria.blogspot.com/
Odyssee: https://odysee.com/@Megalextoria:b
Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-2385054
Daily Motion: https://www.dailymotion.com/Megalextoria
Books I am reading or have recently read:
Red Sails Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
