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.
It appears that most or all of these photos were taken in the early 1980s.
The first slide was processed July 1980 and features food for some kind of birthday celebration. The cake says "Best Wishes to 1980 Birthdays" so I guess a celebration for babies born that year (or perhaps their mothers).
The second photo is dated June 20th, 1983 and features a cake that was part of some kind of 50th anniversary celebration.
The third photo is undated but is also probably from the early 1980s. It features two older individuals with a baby, probably their grandchild.
The last photo is dated October 1980 and shows a scene overlooking a forest where the leaves have started changing colors.
50th Rec. - 6 KIPKE 6/20/83
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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