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 September 1977. The only thing I've really been able to tell with photos that I have come across in this batch with this date is that they were taken on or near the coast, probably the East coast of the U.S. I have guessed maybe somewhere in New England or maybe North Carolina but if you were just looking at this set you could just as easily guess Florida. I just have found anything yet that narrows it down.
The first photo shows some houses right by the water. I know of places in Florida that look just like this but that's hardly the only place such a setup exists.
The second shows a beach with people enjoying the sun and water. Looks just like beaches I know of in Florida but those aren't the only beaches that look like this.
The third is another beach photo with more people this time.
The last photo shows two women in what appears to be a restaurant somewhere. Presumably it is near the beach featured in the above photos but you can't really see much of it. At least the woman on the right has been in a number of previous photos from this batch so presumably she belongs to the family that owns the camera.
processed September 1977
processed September 1977
processed September 1977
processed September 1977
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.
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