Several years ago I bought a flatbed scanner with a slide adapter to scan some old film slides that my grandparents had. After I finished scanning those, I picked up several batches of slides from Goodwill and on eBay out of curiosity. I am 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 their 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.
I'm using the term "batch" to refer to 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.
I'm using the term "set" to refer to 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 a set of four slides.
This batch contains photos spanning from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. Other than these slides coming from eBay, I have no idea of their ultimate origin other than the clues provided in the photos themselves. The photographer seems to have been from Lansing, Michigan and many of the photos are from there. I think I've identified the photographer, see this post for more details.
These were all scanned with an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner.
Most of the photos in this set were processed in the early 1980s and were likely taken in the Lansing, Michigan area.
The first photo is the exception. It is undated but is labeled "Playground - Marburg". It looks like it was taken in the 1960s and I'm assuming this is Marburg, Germany.
The second photo was processed in March 1982 and shows four older gentlemen in suits.
The third photo was processed in July 1980 and shows a kid swinging at a baseball. The photo is kind of blurry but it was snapped with pretty impressive timing.
The last photo was processed in March 1982 and shows four women whom I assume are the wives of the men in the second photo. That photo and this one appear to have been taken at the same time and place.
Playground - Marburg
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:
Byte (December 1985) https://ecency.com/@darth-azrael/byte-december-1985
Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (473-476) https://ecency.com/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-6-473
PC World (September 1986) https://ecency.com/@darth-azrael/pc-world-september-1986
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