Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (693-696)

9 days ago

After getting a new scanner several years ago to scan some old film 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 I know that some have ultimately come from estate sales. Maybe family members just don't know what to do with them. I've seen them listed as being for arts and crafts so I assume there are those that use them for that purpose. I was more interested in the actual contents. Each slide is a little piece 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.

Most of 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 (though some do). 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. 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 June 1957 according to dates hand written on the slides and were all taken near Yorktown, Virginia.

The first photo features the Yorktown Victory Monument in Yorktown, Virginia. This monument was commissioned shortly after the American victory at Yorktown and what was effectively the end of the Revolutionary War.

I believe that the next three photos all feature the Yorktown Battlefield which is part of the Colonial National Historic Park in Virginia. This was the site of the last major battle of the Revolutionary War where General George Washington and American forces defeated General Cornwallis an the British army (along with a little help from the French).

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:

Antic (August 1984)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/antic-august-1984

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (689-692)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-689

Ultima III: Exodus
https://ecency.com/hive-140217/@darth-azrael/ultima-iii-exodus

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (685-688)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-685

Byte (May 1982)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/byte-may-1982

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (681-684)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-681

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Red Star Falling by Steve Berry.
A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians by H.G. Parry
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson

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5 comments

@mildreds.garden 44

8 days ago

"What a captivating journey back in time. These slides from the late 1950s transport us directly to the historic corners of Yorktown. A visual capsule that awakens memory and imagination.

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

I guess it's the camera, right?

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@giathebao 65

7 days ago

Super cool photos. I am always fascinated by old military and battlefield sites. There is always an energy to these kind of places, a heaviness in the air. I remember feeling this way when I visited some of the old WWI battlefields in Europe. It is cool to imagine the scenes of history that took place there. The photo with the canon perfectly displays this. I feel like I can see lines of redcoats marching in the distance, hear the sound of canons.

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