After getting a new scanner several years ago to scan some old slides my grandparents had, I picked up several batches of slides from Goodwill and eBay. I'm not sure why these commonly wind up at places like that 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 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.
Unfortunately, the photos from this batch don't seem to generally have dates stamped on them like most of the previous batches I've gone through. However, they generally seem to be from the 1950s and 1960s. Like some of the previous batches, this one came from eBay and I don't know much about the origins of these photos other than that.
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.
These were all scanned with an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner.
These photos, like other recent sets, were likely taken circa 1959.
The first photo is of an informational display about Picket's Charge at Gettysburg National Military Park.
The second photo is a night shot of the Sun Ranch Motel which was on Collins Avenue in Miami Beach. It was demolished in 2015.
The third photo is a night shot of the Driftwood Motel which was also on Collins Avenue in Miami Beach. It was demolished in 2016.
The last photo was taken from an airplane. I have no idea where this is but there is a good chance it was on the way to or from Florida.
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 post processing.
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Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (277-280)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-277
Retrocomputing: Prostar Laptops
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/retrocomputing-prostar-laptops
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (273-276)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-273
Digital Archaeology: Floppy Disk #14 – DM0125.DOC
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/digital-archaeology-floppy-disk-14-82ff7f51d52b8
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (269-272)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-269
Advanced Computer Entertainment (February 1990)
https://ecency.com/retrogaming/@darth-azrael/advanced-computer-entertainment-february-1990
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The last one is the most fascinating to me. That looks incredibly old with all the contrast gone, usually a result of the stock expiring a long time ago.
Whatever the reason for being that high up, it must've been a crazy experience, clearly something they wanted to capture and remember. Forgotten in time, until now ;^)
The slides themselves are essentially film positives and they can fade over time. Generally, I'll use my scanner software to do color correction but most of the time I post the raw scans. Here's what that one looks like color corrected: