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 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. 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 one set of four slides. It's just easier to keep track of that way. 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. All of the photos in this set were processed in August 1967 and were probably taken in the Lansing, Michigan area. It looks like all of these photos were taken at the same time and place. They appear to show a playground under construction. Three of the four photos were taken from above from the same location, presumably from a neighboring building. The third photo was taken from the ground. There is a sign in the neighboring parking lot that says "park free downtown" so my assumption is that this location is somewhere in downtown Lansing, Michigan.

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: GamePro (April 1998) https://ecency.com/@darth-azrael/gamepro-april-1998 Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (353-356) https://ecency.com/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-6-353 More Computer Demons https://ecency.com/@darth-azrael/more-computer-demons Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (349-352) https://ecency.com/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-6-349 Digital Archaeology: Dell Latitude E6520 https://ecency.com/@darth-azrael/digital-archaeology-dell-latitude-e6520 --- Check out my other Social Media haunts: Wordpress: https://www.megalextoria.com/wordpress Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/darth-azrael Blogger: https://megalextoria.blogspot.com/ Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/darth-azrael.bsky.social Odyssee: https://odysee.com/@Megalextoria:b Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-2385054 Daily Motion: https://www.dailymotion.com/Megalextoria --- Books I am reading or have recently read: Eruption by Michael Crichton and James Patterson. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling. Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch. --- Mine Monero in your browser! Earn Gridcoin while also helping various scientific projects by sharing your computer's idle CPU time! ---

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