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 some time in the 1950s in Mexico.
These were all taken along the road somewhere which makes it difficult to identify exactly where they were taken. However, the third photo features a "Tropico De Cancer" sign. Searching google, I see similar signs featured in southern Baja California so I think this is probably where that photo was taken.
The last photo is interesting in that it features the people who presumably own the camera. I'm not sure if the camera belongs to a third person or it's on a tripod and taking this photo on a timer. The car and the woman have been seen in previous sets. I think they guy may have been as well but less frequently. You can see part of the license plate on the car which features the year 1951 so these photos were likely taken in the very early 1950s. This set was also scanned from glass slides which stopped being commonly used in the 1950s.
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.
Check out some of my other recent posts:
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PC World (September 1985)
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Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (369-372)
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