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.
All of these photos would have been taken circa 1959.
The first photo features a family standing it front of what is presumably their house. This could be the family of the photographer with the camera on a tripod or perhaps the family of his brother or sister but I'm just speculating.
The next three photos appear to feature the same airplane. The first featuring the airplane on the ground and the others taken from the airplane once in the air. I THINK the registration number is N6215C based on what I can make out on the wing and the "215" on the nose gear door. If so, that would make this a Lockheed L-1049C Super Constellation. I found another photo of this plane that shows it at the Charlotte, North Carolina airport in January 1960 which was likely less than a year after this photo was taken. I found another photo of a plane with the same registration but the paint job was different as was the nose cone shape which confused me at first. However, apparently a weather radar could be installed in this aircraft that changed the nose cone shape.
Many of the photos from this batch have featured Florida as an apparent vacation location so my best guess is that this plane was flying to or from Florida. Eastern was headquartered in Miami, Florida so that would fit. I don't see anything that definitively identifies this airport, however, online information suggests that this plane was ultimately scrapped in Miami.
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.
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Three Tune Tuesday - Some Folk-ish Choices
https://ecency.com/threetunetuesday/@darth-azrael/three-tune-tuesday-some-folk
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (453-456)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-453
ST-Log (April 1988)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/st-log-april-1988
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (449-452)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-449
Amstrad Computer User (January 1990)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/amstrad-computer-user-january-1990
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (445-448)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-445
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I just won my second batch of slides at auction... It's now an obsession. 🤣
Hopefully we don't compete too much, although I haven't ventured into Ebay yet. I found about a dozen slides total at Goodwill but my area of Florida doesn't seem very good for thrifting anything cool. Perhaps I'll have to check out estate sales.
Lol, I'm always tempted to get more but I won a few large sets between eBay and Goodwill a few years ago and I think I probably already have so many I won't survive to scan them all as it is.
I just got three more. There goes my year 🤣
Also, I love my Epson Perfection V600. What program are you using?
I mostly use the software that came with it. I think it is just called Epson Scan. Seems to work well enough. I've tried a couple of other programs but I haven't found any others that let you use the Digital ICE features without paying extra money. While I usually post raw image scans, I usually also scan with the color correction and digital ice features enabled. It usually does a fairly impressive job cleaning things up without any manual intervention:
That second one is the coolest. From the colours to the subject. Even that little bit of emulsion to the right of the frame.
I like posts like this. I love looking at vintage stuff and read its stories behind. I will soon share some vintage story. Been thinking what content to come up.
This is a nice shot! I can’t wait for the day I take my first flight 😌
Wao, I found your profile navigating by the ecosystem and now, I can't leave of your pictures. This vintage photos I love a lot
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