I decided to indulge my curiosity after getting a new scanner a few years ago and 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.

I don't know a whole lot about the ultimate origins of this batch of slides other than they came from Goodwill. Like previous batches, these too often have a date stamped on them that I assume indicates when the film was developed and I believe in most cases should give approximate dating for the photograph itself. So far these seem like mostly vacation photos that were taken in the 1960s and 1970s. I've identified places in Italy, France, Mexico, and Hawaii so far.

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.

All of these slides were processed in September 1977. I still haven't figured out where photos with this date were taken exactly but it seems to be somewhere along the East coast, perhaps somewhere in New England or maybe North Carolina. These all seem to be taken at someone's house who lives right on the water and has a dock behind their house. There's a sunrise/sunset photo, one of someone fishing, and others of people generally hanging out near or in the water.

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See the previous post in this series here.

The entire collection that has been scanned and uploaded so far can also be found here. This also includes higher resolution versions and versions with post processing.

Check out some of my other recent posts:

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https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/digital-archaeology-dell-xps-gen2-1bbef2cc587b5

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https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/popular-computing-weekly-october-31st

Vintage Photos - Goodwill Lot 1 (329-332)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-goodwill-lot-1-a2d8f8bc28eb4

MicroIllusions (1987)
https://ecency.com/retrogaming/@darth-azrael/microillusions-1987

Vintage Photos - Goodwill Lot 1 (325-328)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-goodwill-lot-1-7c792a02536f5

Digital Archaeology: Floppy Disk #10 – TIGLON3.DOC
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/digital-archaeology-floppy-disk-10-297b7e0c461ef