Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (441-444)

13 days ago

Several years ago I bought a flatbed scanner with a slide adapter to scan some old film slides that my grandparents had. After I finished scanning those, I picked up several batches of slides from Goodwill and on eBay out of curiosity. I am not sure why these commonly wind up at such places but I know that at least some of them have ultimately come from estate sales. Maybe family members just don't know what to do with them. I've seen them advertised as being for arts and crafts but I was more interested in the actual contents. Each slide is literally a snapshot in history. 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 as an interesting way to look back at the past.

I'm using the term "batch" to refer to a group of slides I bought in a single purchase. Usually they are from the same ultimate origin. Typically, a batch will have 100s or even 1000s of slides.

I'm using the term "set" to refer to a subset of a batch 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. It's just easier to keep track of that way.

This batch contains photos spanning from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. Other than these slides coming from eBay, I have no idea of their ultimate origin other than the clues provided in the photos themselves. The photographer seems to have been from Lansing, Michigan and many of the photos are from there.

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

All of the photos in this set were taken in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were all likely taken in the Lansing, Michigan area.

The first photo was processed in August 1968. It shows some kind of event for kids. Previous sets have included photos from an Olympics style event and some kind of pageant so this is probably one of those.

The second photo was processed in May 1970 and is labeled 'Softball'. This was appearently taken at a softball game though it seems to focus on the bench area.

The third photo was processed in July 1967 and is labeled 'Battle of Bands - Everett Pk.' There is still an Everett Park in Lansing, Michigan and that is presumably where this was taken. You can see a band on the stage.

The last photo was processed in June 1962 and is labeled 'Grand Woods 62'. Grand Woods is another park in Lansing, Michigan.

_Softball

_{Battle of Bands - Everett Pk.}

_{Grand Woods 62}

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.

Check out some of my other recent posts:

Byte: The Small Systems Journal (August 1979)
https://ecency.com/@darth-azrael/byte-the-small-systems-journal-d71a089165d8a

Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (437-440)
https://ecency.com/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-6-437

Digital Archaeology: LifeBook N6010
https://ecency.com/@darth-azrael/digital-archaeology-lifebook-n6010

PC Clones - Premiere Issue - 1987
https://ecency.com/@darth-azrael/pc-clones-premiere-issue-1987