Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (045-048)

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.

Sadly, the photos from this batch don't seem to generally have dates stamped on them like most of the previous batches I've gone through. However, they generally seem to be from the 1950s and 1960s. Like some of the previous batches, this one came from eBay and I don't know much about the origins of these photos other than that.

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 and third photos show a small waterfall. There was another photo of this same spot in a previous set. I don't know exactly where this is but my best guess is somewhere in Tennessee, perhaps near Oak Ridge.

The second photo features the SM-62 Snark which was an intercontinental range cruise missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead that was deployed by the U.S. Air Force from 1958 through 1961. I believe this photo was taken at Patrick Air Force Base (now Patrick Space Force Base) in Brevard County, Florida likely in the late 1950s or early 1960s. There is still one of these missiles on display at the Air Force Space & Missile Museum at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Quite possibly the very same one.

The third photo features a statue of a giant beetle that once resided in Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida but now resides somewhere in Colorado. In the late 1950s or early 1960s when this photo was likely taken it still resided in Florida.

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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