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 on 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 listed as being for arts and crafts so I assume 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.
When I say "batch" I mean z 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.
When I say "set" I mean a subset of a batch that is a group of slides that 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 four slides. Organizationally, that'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 taken in April of 1956. They were all taken in Florida or possibly southern Georgia.
The first photo is from "Tommy Bartlett's Deer Ranch". Apparently, this was petting zoo that was run on property leased from Silver Springs. Eventually, this attraction closed and the land was absorbed back into Silver Springs.
The second photo features a sign indicating this location is part of "Hafford Trail". I could find no reference to this trail online. I even asked ChatGPT with no luck. It says this is the "headwaters of the Suwannee River". That would be in the Okefenokee Swamp in the town of Fargo, Georgia. There was another photo of this sign in a previous set.
The next two photos appear to show a swampy area. I assume this is somewhere near the sign in the second photo.
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.
Check out some of my other recent posts:
Digital Archaeology: Hewlett Packard xw4100
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/digital-archaeology-hewlett-packard-xw4100
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (577-580)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-577-4b9da1f9767fb
Big K (August 1984)
https://ecency.com/retrogaming/@darth-azrael/big-k-august-1984
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (585-588)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-585
Home Computer Magazine Volume 4, Number 1 (1985)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/home-computer-magazine-volume-4
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (581-584)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-581
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Books I am reading or have recently read:
Red Star Falling by Steve Berry.
A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians by H.G. Parry
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson
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