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.
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.
These were all scanned with an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner.
The first photo in this set was processed in July 1976 and appears to have been taken in Hawaii. This is probably a luau at a resort. In any case, there have been other photos in previous sets from what seems like this same event.
The next two photos were processed in September 1977. These were taken at what I think is an east coast location perhaps in New England or North Carolina but there doesn't seem to be anything here to help me narrow it down further. The first is a jetty on a sandy beach somewhere and the second features a man cutting up what appears to be an eel.
The last photo, like the first, was processed in July 1976. It looks like it was probably taken near a volcanic peak in Hawaii.
processed July 1976
processed September 1977
processed September 1977
processed July 1976
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.
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Computer + Video Games (December 1987)
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Vintage Photos - Goodwill Lot 1 (401-404)
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Tiny Toon Adventures: ACME All-Stars (Sega Genesis)
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Vintage Photos - Goodwill Lot 1 (397-400)
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