After getting a new scanner several years ago to scan some old slides my grandparents had, I picked up several batches of slides from Goodwill and eBay. I'm not sure why these commonly wind up at places like that 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 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.
Unfortunately, the photos from this batch don't seem to generally have dates stamped on them like most of the previous batches I've gone through. However, they generally seem to be from the 1950s and 1960s. Like some of the previous batches, this one came from eBay and I don't know much about the origins of these photos other than that.
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.
These were all scanned with an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner.
Like other recent sets, these photos were likely taken circa 1959.
The first image is a photo of an information display at the American Museum of Atomic Energy (now the American Museum of Science and Energy) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee about the nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge.
The second photo features a boat called the Greyhound II. I found references to a charter fishing boat in Key West with that name that was operating in the 1950s. The best photo of it online I have found is here: https://www.keysnews.com/community/today-in-keys-history/article_5a8a1114-28c3-11ef-9497-9f392e88e30a.html - it does look like the same boat.
The third photo is another informational display from the same museum as the first photo. It is a map of the nuclear power plants and reactors in the U.S. at the time.
The last photo is another informational display, this one explaining different types of nuclear reactors.
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:
MegaCon 2012: Emerald Rose (7) - Take Me Down (to Her Water)
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Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (233-236)
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Byte (November 1985)
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Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (229-232)
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The One (December 1994)
@darth-azrael/the-one-december-1994
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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Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-2385054
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Books I am reading or have recently read:
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson
Total Power by Vince Flynn
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