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.
All of the photos in this set were taken circa 1959. Except for the first, they are all from Florida.
The first photo features some kind of construction project. Based on the scenery and where other photos were taken from this batch, this was probably in Tennessee or Kentucky. I can't really tell what this is. Based on a variety of dam photos in other sets, my best guess is that this is a dam under construction.
The next three shots were all taken from a dock. The first two feature what I believe is the same shrimp boat and it looks like the photography was trying to catch a fish (or something) jumping in the water. In one of the shots of the boat you can see what looks like CAPT. DEECH. on the side though the first letter in the second part is hard to make out. I'm not sure exactly where in Florida these were taken. I've seen other photos in this batch from Key West, Miami, and Cocoa Beach and in particular pics from or of boats in Key West and Miami so these are the most likely locations.
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 postprocessing.
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