Several years ago I bought a flatbed scanner with a slide adapter to scan some old film slides that my grandparents had. After I finished scanning those (there weren't really all that many) I picked up several batches of slides from Goodwill and on eBay out of curiosity. I'm not sure why these commonly wind up at such places but I know that at least some of them have ultimately come from estate sales. Maybe family members just don't know what to do with them. I've seen them advertised as being for arts and crafts but I was more interested in the actual contents. Each slide is literally a snapshot in history. 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 as an interesting way to look back at the past.
When I say "batch" I mean a group 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 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. It's just easier to keep track of that way.
These photos all come from a single slide carousel that came from either Goodwill or eBay...I don't remember which at this point. This is a pretty small batch with only about 130 slides in total. There are dates (month and year) stamped on these that I assume indicates the date when the film was developed. They are all from the 1970s and early 1980s.
These were all scanned with an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner.
This photo has a date of January 1st, 1981 stamped on it and was most likely taken on Christmas Day 1980.
This single photo marks the end of this batch of photos. The man in this photo has been seen in a lot of recent sets both in Christmas photos and in some photos that appeared to show a fire damaged house being renovated. This set as a whole seemed to be divided between photos taken in 1980 and other photos taken several years before.
The next post in this series will start a brand new and much larger set spanning from at least 1959 to at least 1980.
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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