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, most of them seem to be from the 1950s and 1960s. Like some of the previous batches, this one came from eBay.
Batch = A bunch of slides I bought in a single purchase. Usually they are from the same ultimate origig. 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.
All of the photos in this set were likely taken circa 1959 in Pennsylvania and Florida.
The first photo features the Thunderbird Motel in Miami which opened in 1955, only a few years before this photo would have been taken. Like many of the hotels and motels that were built in Miami during this time, this one is no longer standing.
The second photo was taken from an airplane. There's no way to know where exactly this was but my best guess is that it was on the way to or from Florida.
The second photo features the North Carolina Monument at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania.
The last photo was also likely taken at Gettysburg National Military Park.
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 include higher resolution versions and versions with post processing.
Check out some of my other recent posts:
Byte (September 1984)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/byte-september-1984
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (329-332)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-329
MacAddict (August 1997)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/macaddict-august-1997
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (325-328)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-325
Brevard Renaissance Fair 2020: The Craic Show (17) - In Taberna
https://ecency.com/music/@darth-azrael/mmdamobfka
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (321-324)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-321
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Books I am reading or have recently read:
A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians by H.G. Parry
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson
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Why do the last 2 pictures have that reddish tone?
Sometimes certain colors fade on the film over the years causing this effect. This can be corrected sometimes with the scanner software or with photo editing software. I usually post just the raw scans but here's an example of a color corrected version of the last photo:
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