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 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 advertised as being for crafts 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.
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.
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.
All of these photos were likely taken circa 1959.
At least the first three photos feature what look like museum displays. The first features a dive suit (along with a boy sitting next to it), the second features a display that shows a submarine launching a missile, and the third appears to show another display illustrating a World War II battle. Based on the timing and subject matter, these may have been taken at the U.S. Naval Ordnance Museum / Washington Navy Yard Museum which became the National Museum of the United States Navy in 1962.
The last photo features what looks like another display but it looks like a scene from an earlier more primitive Hawaii or other Pacific Island location and seems sort of out of place for a U.S. Navy museum. The most interesting part of this photo to me is that you can make out a partial reflection of the photographer in the glass.
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:
Digital Archaeology: Floppy Disk #14 – DM0127.DOC
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/digital-archaeology-floppy-disk-14-7ed5e1250e4d2
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (501-504)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-501
Atlas V Launch of the Solar Orbiter (2020-02-10)
https://ecency.com/hive-181335/@darth-azrael/hryolofk
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (401-404)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-401-1e950d7e78ea2
Zaxxon (Commodore 64)
https://ecency.com/hive-140217/@darth-azrael/zaxxon-commodore-64
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (397-400)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-397
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