I decided to indulge my curiosity after getting a new scanner a few years ago and 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.
I don't know a whole lot about the ultimate origins of this batch of slides other than they came from Goodwill. Like previous batches, these too often have a date stamped on them that I assume indicates when the film was developed and I believe in most cases should give approximate dating for the photograph itself. So far these seem like mostly vacation photos that were taken in the 1960s and 1970s. I've identified places in Italy, France, Mexico, and Hawaii so far.
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.
All of the photos in this set were processed in August 1970 which most likely places them all in Italy based on previous sets. Most of these appear to have been taken in a museum.
The first looks like maybe an altar. My guess is that this is in Florence and this was originally from the Florence Cathedral.
The second photo features sculptures in a museum. The center one is St. John the Evangelist (marble) created by Donatello, (c.1386-1466) and currently resides in the Museo dell Opera del Duomo in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
The third photo is another museum shot. All of these museum photos are probably from the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo in Florence, Italy.
The last photo is the only one in this set not taken in a museum. Google identifies this as San Gimignano which is in Siena, Tuscany.
processed August 1970
processed August 1970
processed August 1970
processed August 1970 (San Gimignano)
See the previous post in this series here.
The entire collection 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:
Compute! (March 1990)
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Vintage Photos - Goodwill Lot 1 (313-316)
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Brevard Renaissance Fair 2020: Music the Gathering - The Rolling of the Stone (12)
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Vintage Photos - Goodwill Lot 1 (309-312)
@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-goodwill-lot-1-f87528ef95ac1
Byte (September 1989)
@darth-azrael/byte-september-1989
Vintage Photos - Goodwill Lot 1 (305-308)
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Books I am reading or have recently read:
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr by Nancy Isenberg
Tom Clancy's Op-Center: God of War by Jeff Rovin
Red Sails Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
