Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (573-576)

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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 on eBay. I'm not sure why these commonly wind up at places like that 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 listed as being for arts and crafts so I assume 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.

Unfortunately, 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.

When I say "batch" I mean 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.

When I say "set" I mean a subset of a batch that is a group of slides 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. Organizationally, that's just the easiest way for me to handle things.

These were all scanned with an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner.

All of the photos in this set were taken in April 1956 as indicated by handwritten dates on the slides and all were taken in Florida.

The first photo was definitely taken in Ponce De Leon Springs in Deland, Florida. This is a closer up view of a statue there that appeared in the previous set.

It's harder to tell where the second photo was taken. It's definitely still Florida and possibly in the general vicinity of Ponce De Leon Springs. It features what appears to be a Mother and her son and presumably either her parents or the photographer's parents whom I assume to be the husband/father.

The last two photos are nature shots and are probably also from Ponce De Leon Springs.









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.

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1956! That's pretty awesome. I love the look of these old slides. I wonder if these were colorized or if that was someone with a bit of cash and interest. Color cameras wouldn't have been super common in 1956.

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These were taken with a color film. I think Kodachrome processing in particular became common starting in the mid 1950s (it was originally developed in 1935). I'm sure cameras and film probably weren't cheap though.

I actually have a camera that belonged to my grandfather that I believe dates back to at least the late 1950s as well as a few slides from photos that were taken with it (in color). One of these days I'm going to see if I can get it working.

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