Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (125-128)

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 slides in this set were taken in the mid to late 1960s, probably in the Lansing, Michigan area.

The first photo features flowers and is labeled 'Bloom 64'. Presumably it was taken some time in 1964.

The second photo is undated but was probably taken in the mid to late 1960s. It features three boys with one of them opening presents. I'm guessing this was a birthday party.

The third photo is also undated but also probably taken in the 1960. It is labeled "Play Equip - Giraffe". It features a Giraffe shaped piece of playground equipment to climb on. One of the members of the family these photos belong to was on some kind of playground committee in Lansing, Michigan and there are playground related photos scattered throughout this batch of photos.

The last photo was taken in 1965 and features a gravestone in a cemetery. Unfortuantely, I can't really make out what it says.

_{Bloom 64}

_{Play Equip - Giraffe}

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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:

The Games Machine (June 1988)
@darth-azrael/the-games-machine-june-1988

Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (121-124)
@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-6-121

Edge (April 1999)
@darth-azrael/edge-april-1999

Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (117-120)
@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-6-117

Computer + Video Games (January 1991)
@darth-azrael/computer-video-games-january-1991

Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (113-116)
@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-6-113