After getting a new scanner several years ago to scan some old film 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 I know that some have ultimately come from estate sales. Maybe family members just don't know what to do with them. I've seen them listed as being for arts and crafts so I assume there are those that use them for that purpose. I was more interested in the actual contents. Each slide is a little piece 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.
Most of 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 (though some do). 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. 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.
All of the photos in this set were taken in June 1957 according to dates hand written on the slides. I believe these were all taken in Virginia.
The first photo features the Moore House. This was the location where surrender terms were worked out between the Americans and the British and the end of the Revolutionary War. It is located in what is today Colonial National Historic Park in York County, Virginia and is near where the Battle of Yorktown was fought.
The second photo features the shipyard at Norfolk. The ship on the far left features the hull number of 67 which corresponds to the USS Topeka (CL-67). In 1957, it was undergoing conversion from a Cleveland-class light cruiser to a guided missile cruiser. This supposedly happened in New York but either some of the work also happened in Norfolk or this was a stop on the way as there is no other ship with hull number 67 that is a plausible fit during this time.
The third photo also features the shipyard at Norfolk. Looking at hull numbers left to right, the first one appears to be 20 which would make this most likely the USS Hamul (AD-20), a destroyer tender. The next four with visible hull numbers are all Terrebonne Parish-class tank landing ships. The first appears to be USS Graham County (LST-1166). The second appears to be USS Vernon County (LST-1161). The fourth appears to be USS Grant Count (LST-1164). The third one is harder to make out. The first three digits appear to be '115'. It is most likely the USS Tallahatchie County (LST-1158) though there are a few other possibilities.
The last photo features one of the Chesapeake Bay ferries that were commonly used before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel was constructed. I assume the destination from this location is Kiptopeke Beach, Virginia (Kiptopeke State Park today).
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 (697-700)
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