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 1966 but appear to be from different places depending on when exactly in 1966 they were taken.
The first photo was processed in August 1966 and is a view of Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico. This must have been taken from some public overlook location because I can find other photos online from this exact perspective.
The second photo was processed in June 1966 and was probably taken in Florence, Italy.
The last two photos were processed in September 1966. The first of them features a building that is part of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. The second features a swimming pool and diving platform and was also probably taken in Mexico City.
processed August 1966
processed June 1966
processed September 1966
processed September 1966
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:
The Australian Commodore and Amiga Review (November 1987)
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Vintage Photos - Goodwill Lot 1 (341-344)
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The Lion King (Sega Genesis)
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Vintage Photos - Goodwill Lot 1 (337-340)
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Digital Archaeology: Dell XPS Gen2 (2)
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Check out my other Social Media haunts (though most content is links to stuff I posted on Hive or reposts of stuff originally posted on Hive):
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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
