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'm referring to 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'm referring to 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 batch contains photos spanning from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. Other than these slides coming from eBay, I have no idea of their ultimate origin other than the clues provided in the photos themselves. The photographer seems to have been from Lansing, Michigan and many of the photos are from there.
These were all scanned with an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner.
None of the photos in this set are labeled or dated. However, I believe they were all taken at the same time and place, probably in the early 1970s. When I started this project, ChatGPT didn't even exist yet. However, AI has become a big help in identifying where some of these photos were taken. For example, ChatGPT identifies these as having been taken at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island in Michigan. Three of the four photos show the exterior but the second photo is an interior shot that shows a bunch of older women in line for coffee.
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 – DEC84.DOC
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Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (229-232)
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Compute! (February 1983)
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Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (225-228)
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