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 eBay 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 and such 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 were all likely taken circa 1959.
The first photo features a fishing trip, probably the same one featured in previous sets which was somewhere off the coast of Miami. I hope that kid was wearing sunscreen...
The second photo is a river, probably in Tennessee. This may be in the state park associated with Norris Dam.
The third photo features an informational display on pressurized water reactors. This was probably taken at a museum or info center realted to Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
I believe that the last photo shows houseboats under construction. That means this photo was almost certainly taken at Norris Dam as the state park it is associated with even today still rents houseboats.
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.
Check out some of my other recent posts:
80 Microcomputing (April 1980)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/80-microcomputing-april-1980
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (209-212)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-209
How I got my PowerPC Macs Crunching Tasks in BOINC Again
https://ecency.com/boinc/@darth-azrael/how-i-got-my-powerpc
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (205-208)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-205
Digital Archaeology: Floppy Disk #14 – DM0123B.DOC
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/digital-archaeology-floppy-disk-14-050eeba202953
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (201-204)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-201
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Books I am reading or have recently read:
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson
Total Power by Vince Flynn
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr by Nancy Isenberg
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