Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (085-088)

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 these photos were likely taken in the early 1970s.

The first photo shows a house with some flowers and is labeled backyard. It is undated but like the others in this set it is probably from the early 1970s.

The second photo has a processing date of April 1973 but according to a handwritten note on the slide this is a snow storm from March 1973. This is probably the same house featured in the first photo and there have been photos of this house in an earlier snow storm in previous sets. Based on some other photos from this batch, I think this was likely somewhere in or near Lansing, Michigan. Chat GPT says that this snow event occurred between March 1st and March 3rd, 1973 and was referred to as the March 1973 North American blizzard or the 1973 Great Blizzard. Lansing did not get the worst of it but they still got 12-16 inches of snow and saw wind gusts of 40-50mph creating snow drifts and blizzard like conditions.

The third photos looks like some kind of pot-luck event at a high school gym. The processing date is hard to read. It's august 1970-something. Probably the early 1970s.

The last photo is labeled "USAF June 71". Based on Chat GPT responses and some Googling, I think this is likely a close-up shot of the U.S. Air Force Academy chapel in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

_Backyard

_{Snow March 73}

_{USAF June 1971}

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:

Popular Computing Weekly (October 23rd, 1986)
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Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (081-084)
@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-6-081

Maximum PC (June 2001)
@darth-azrael/maximum-pc-june-2001

Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (077-080)
@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-6-077

The One (June 1991)
@darth-azrael/the-one-june-1991