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. I believe that they are all from Philadelphia.
The first photo features The Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss of Fire. This building was constructed in 1835 though the company was started by Benjamin Franklin.
The second photo features a sign in front of the Philadelphia Contributionship building.
The third photo features the Second Bank of the United States which was constructed in Philadelphia between 1818 and 1824. Currently, this building is used as an art gallery.
The last photo was taken from near the steps of the Second Bank of the United States building but the photo features the old Philadelphia City Hall building. Usually, I post raw image scans. These were pretty badly faded resulting in a strong sepia tone so I let the color correction features of my scanner software do its thing for this last photo to show the difference.
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:
Digital Archaeology: Gateway MX6426
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Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (461-464)
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The One (June 1992)
@darth-azrael/the-one-june-1992
SVintage Photos - Lot 3 (457-460)
@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-457
Three Tune Tuesday - Some Folk-ish Choices
@darth-azrael/three-tune-tuesday-some-folk
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (453-456)
@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-453
ST-Log (April 1988)
@darth-azrael/st-log-april-1988
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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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