I decided to indulge my curiosity after getting a new scanner a few years ago and picked up several batches of slides from Goodwill and eBay. I'm not sure why these commonly wind up at places like eBay but many seem to ultimately have come from estate sales. Maybe family members just don't know what to do with them or don't care. I've seen them advertised as being for crafts and such so maybe they are commonly used for that purpose. I was more interested in the actual contents. Each slide is a little slice of history from a particular time and place. 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 mainly because I find them an interesting way to look back at the past.
I don't know a whole lot about the ultimate origins of this batch of slides other than they came from Goodwill. Like previous batches, these too often have a date stamped on them that I assume indicates when the film was developed and I believe in most cases should give approximate dating for the photograph itself. So far these seem like mostly vacation photos that were taken in the 1960s and 1970s. I've identified places in Italy, France, Mexico, and Hawaii so far.
What I mean by "batch" and "set" because sometimes I even confuse myself:
Batch = A bunch of slides I bought in a single purchase. Usually they are from the same ultimate origin but not necessarily. Typically, a batch will have 100s or even 1000s of slides.
Set = Subset of a batch. A group of slides 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 fours slides. Organizationally, it's just the easiest way for me to handle things.
Like the previous set, all of the photos in this set were processed in August 1970 and were taken in Italy.
I'm not sure where the first one was taken though the girl in the doorway has shown up in other sets. The wording on the sign translates to (at least according to Google Tranlate) to "Access to non-experts is prohibited".
The second photo appears to have been of the birthplace of Giacomo Puccini who was born in 1858. It is located in Lucca and this second floor flat was later turned into a museum in 1979.
The third photo features the bronze east doors of the baptistry at the Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Italy.
The last photo features a restaraunt. However, other than being on the coast somewhere in Italy (probably Tuscany), I have no idea where this is.
processed August 1970
processed August 1970
processed August 1970
processed August 1970
See the previous post in this series here.
The entire collection that has been scanned and uploaded so far can also be found here. This also includes higher resolution versions and versions with post processing.
Check out some of my other recent posts:
Digital Archaeology: Dell XPS Gen2
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/digital-archaeology-dell-xps-gen2
Vintage Photos - Goodwill Lot 1 (281-284)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-goodwill-lot-1-8e38eb60b0e26
Compute!'s Gazette (February 1984)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/compute-s-gazette-february-1984
Compute! (March 1981)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/compute-march-1981
Vintage Photos - Goodwill Lot 1 (277-280)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-goodwill-lot-1-7c99f29058aa2
PC Magazine (July 24th, 1984)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/pc-magazine-july-24th-1984
Check out my other Social Media haunts (though most content is links to stuff I posted on Hive or reposts of stuff originally posted on Hive):
Wordpress: https://www.megalextoria.com/wordpress
Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/darth-azrael
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Darth_Azrael
Blogger: https://megalextoria.blogspot.com/
Odyssee: https://odysee.com/@Megalextoria:b
Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-2385054
Daily Motion: https://www.dailymotion.com/Megalextoria
Books I am reading or have recently read:
Red Sails Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
