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 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.
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.
The first two photos in this set aren't really photos but something that would have been marker or title slides. The "Lights Out" one was probably for the end of a set and the "Summer Vacation" one was no doubt for the start of a set of summer vacation photos.
The next two photos were probably a couple of those summer vacation photos and they are dated June 1957. It's hard to tell exactly where they were taken but it is in Florida somewhere, probably on the east coast, maybe in the Miami area but it could be anywhere between there and Cocoa Beach based on other photos from this batch.
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:
ANALOG Computing (July 1984)
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Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (597-600)
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Maximum PC (September 2000)
@darth-azrael/maximum-pc-september-2000
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (593-596)
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Digital Archaeology: Hewlett Packard xw4100
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Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (577-580)
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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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