After getting a new scanner several years ago to scan some old film slides that 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 such places but I know that at least some of them have ultimately come from estate sales. Maybe family members just don't know what to do with them. I've seen them advertised as being for arts and crafts but I was more interested in the actual contents. Each slide is literally a snapshot in history. 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 as an interesting way to look back at the past.
When I say "batch" I mean a group of slides I bought in a single purchase. Usually they are from the same ultimate origin. Typically, a batch will have 100s or even 1000s of slides.
When I say "set" I mean a subset of a batch 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. It's just easier to keep track of that way.
These photos all come from a single slide carousel that came from either Goodwill or eBAy...I don't remember which at this point. This is a pretty small batch with only about 130 slides in total. There are dates (month and year) stamped on these that I assume indicates the date when these were developed. They are all from the 1970s and early 1980s.
These were all scanned with an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner.
The slides in this set are all stamped with the date June 1974.
The first photo features the same girl that has been the one constant in these photos so far. She appears to be dressed for some special occasion here.
And speaking of special occasions, the next three photos feature the same girl with whom I've been assuming is her boyfriend dressed in fancy 1970s clothing. Perhaps for prom or perhaps some other formal dance? As far as I can tell, all of the photos in this batch so far have been taken at the same farmhouse though it hasn't been obvious yet where that might be.
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:
Compute! (September 1985)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/compute-september-1985
Vintage Photos - Lot 4 (005-008)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-4-005
Digital Archaeology: Floppy Disk #14 – PROT.DOC
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/digital-archaeology-floppy-disk-14-3881244af95c1
Vintage Photos - Lot 4 (001-004)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-4-001
The One (October 1989)
https://ecency.com/retrogaming/@darth-azrael/the-one-october-1989
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (777-780)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-777
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Blogger: https://megalextoria.blogspot.com/
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Daily Motion: https://www.dailymotion.com/Megalextoria
Books I am reading or have recently read:
The Altar Path by Joseph Lisiewski.
Red Star Falling by Steve Berry.
A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians by H.G. Parry
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