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, I picked up several batches of slides from Goodwill and on eBay out of curiosity. I am 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.
This set contains photos spanning from as far back as at least 1959 to as recent as at least 1980. Other than these slides coming from eBay, I have no idea of their ultimate origin other than the clues provided in the photos themselves.
These were all scanned with an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner.
All of the photos in this set are from the late 1960s.
The first slide is stamped with the date February 1969 and appears to have been taken at a high school dance or something similar. You can see a basketball hoop in the background so this was probably taken in a gym.
The second slide is stamped with December 1966 and is labeled 'Xmas 66'. It shows a Christmas tree with presents still wrapped under it so this was probably taken early Christmas morning.
The third photo is is dated November 1968 and is labeled 'Painting 68'. It looks like it shows some kind of painting class.
The last photos is dated March 1968 and is labeled 'Nashville 68'. I assume there is maple syrup in those buckets, or at least the sap that will be made into syrup.
Xmas 66
Painting 68
Nashville 68
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:
Digital Archaeology: Floppy Disk #14 – AUG94.DOC
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Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (037-040)
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Info (September 1989)
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Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (033-036)
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Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling.
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