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.
These photos were all taken in Florida circa 1959.
The first was likely taken in Florida in the Spring of 1959 though it is hard to tell where. Florida photos in previous sets have included locations such as Key West, Cocoa Beach, and Miami so there is a good chance this is near one of those. Based on the other photos in this set my guess is somewhere in the Cocoa Beach area.
The second photo appears to be a photo of a photo...perhaps a post card? You can make out a little bit of lettering on the bottom and I'm pretty sure the last part is Patrick AFB, FL so this would be Patrick Air Force Base.
The third photo, like the previous one, looks like a photo of a postcard. A google search tells me this is an aerial view of Cape Canaveral showing the service tower of the ATLAS intercontinental ballistic missile at the Air Force Missile Test Center launch site.
The last photo looks like another photo of a postcard. It features the TLN-18 Automatic Tracking Telemetry Antenna that was a 60 foot antenna used to track ballistic missiles launched at the Air Force Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral.
I assume the photography mailed these postcards to someone but took photos of them before sending them off.
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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Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (365-368)
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