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 on 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 listed as being for arts and crafts so I assume 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.
When I say "batch" I mean z 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.
When I say "set" I mean a subset of a batch that is a group of slides that 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 four slides. Organizationally, that's just the easiest way for me to handle things.
These were all scanned with an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner.
Most of the photos in this set were taken in Mexico, likely in the early 1950s. These were all scanned from glass slides which faded from use in the 1950s in favor of cheaper technologies.
The first photo features the Palace of Cortes in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
I'm not sure what the structure is in the second photo but it is also located in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Based on the sign that is visible in the third photo, it appears to be Jardin Borda also in Guernavaca, Mexico. Presumably this is an entrance.
The last photo is the only one not taken in Mexico. It is probably a photo of a postcard from the Cape Canaveral area taken in the 1950s (perhaps Spring 1959 based on other photos from this area). It features Pioneer, the U.S. Air Force's lunar probe rocket which was launched at the Air Force Missile Test Center launch Site in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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:
PC Magazine (March 20, 1984)
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Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (553-556)
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Compute! (February 1985)
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Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (549-552)
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Digital Archaeology: Floppy Disk #14 – HAEPHAE.DOC
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Red Star Falling by Steve Berry.
A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians by H.G. Parry
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson
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