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 confuse 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 were processed in August 1970 which places them in Italy based on previous sets with the same date.
The first photo is a shot of Giotto's Campanile or Bell Tower which is adjacent to the Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Italy.
Other than also likely being taken somewhere in Italy, I don't really know where the second photo was taken. It looks like it might be a stairway in an apartment building or something.
Likewise, I'm not really sure what the third photo is supposed to be featuring. It looks like a bunch of recently cut down trees but this is at least the second photo I've seen from this batch of the same location.
The last photo features a woman and a little girl, presumably in their home somewhere in Italy (likely near Florence).
processed August 1970
processed August 1970
processed August 1970
processed August 1970
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:
Computer & Video Games (June 1991)
@darth-azrael/computer-and-video-games-june-87c4e442fc08b
Computer & Video Games (June 1984)
@darth-azrael/computer-and-video-games-june-db6430870273c
Vintage Photos - Goodwill Lot 1 (253-256)
@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-goodwill-lot-1-f75243cc5ae25
Digital Archaeology: Dell Vostro 3550
@darth-azrael/digital-archaeology-dell-vostro-3550
Your 64 (February 1985)
@darth-azrael/your-64-february-1985
Vintage Photos - Goodwill Lot 1 (249-252)
@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-goodwill-lot-1-4fe5a717e152
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
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/Darth_Azrael
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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
