See the previous post in this series here.
I made some impulse buys after getting a new scanner and picked up a huge batch of slides a while back. These pictures span from as early as the late 1940s to as late as the early 1990s. These were from Goodwill and eBay but some were originally from estate sales. There are many thousands of these slides. I will be scanning some from time to time and posting them here for posterity.
Getting your pictures processed as slides used to be pretty common but it was a phenomenon I missed out on. However, my Grandfather had a few dozen slides from the late 1950s that I acquired after he died. That along with having some negatives I wanted to scan is what prompted me to buy a flatbed scanner that could handle slides and negatives, an Epson V600. It can scan up to four slides at a time with various post-processing options and does a decent enough job for what I was willing to spend.
This set continues a large batch of slides that originally came from an estate sale and appear to have belonged to a locally well known photographer, or perhaps a friend or family member, from the Spokane Washington area and later Northern Idaho named Leo Oestreicher. He was known for his portrait and landscape photography and especially for post cards. His career started in the 1930s and he died in 1990. These slides contain a lot of landscape and portrait photos but also a lot of photos from day to day life and various vacations around the world. Here's an article on him from 1997 which is the only info I have found on him: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/jan/04/photos-of-a-lifetime-museum-acquisition-of-leo/
Many of these slides had the date they were processed stamped or printed on them. I expect that in MOST cases these photos were taken relatively near the processing date.
Click the link below to also see versions processed with color restoration and Digital ICE which is a hardware based dust and scratch remover, a feature of the Epson V600 scanner I am using. There are also versions processed with the simpler dust removal option along with color restoration.
The first photo in this set is unlabeled and undated but was likely taken in the late 1950s somewhere in Mexico. It seems to have been part of the same set of photos that included some musical event seen in previous posts.
The second photos was processed in October 1969 and shows two elderly ladies having coffee and donuts in the kitchen.
processed October 1969
The third photo is undated and unlabeled but features a boat called the Auklet II. It's a bit blurry but readable. There's actually quite a lot of info about this boat to be found. It is a 57-foot boat that was built in Seattle, Washington in 1951 for the Fish and Wildlife Service. It was initially headquartered in Juneau, Alaska and has been in Alaska ever since. When Alaska became a state, it was transferred to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. It was upgraded and overhauled over the years and eventually retired and sold in the early 1980s. It made its way through various private hands but is still operational today. It is currently owned by Auklet Charter Services in Prince William Sound, Alaska and is chartered primarily for scientific research and natural history cruises (see https://www.auklet.com/).
Here is a more recent photo from Auklet Charter Services:
The last photo was processed in February 1958 and was taken at a wedding. There have been numerous other photos from this wedding in past sets.
processed February 1958 - Dick, Pat + Jim + Del at reception in annex
The entire collection that has been scanned and uploaded so far can also be found here.