Vintage Photos - Lot 4 (021-024)
After getting a new scanner several years ago to scan some old film slides that 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 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.
When I say "batch" I mean 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.
When I say "set" I mean 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.
These photos all come from a single slide carousel that came from either Goodwill or eBay...I don't remember which at this point. This is a pretty small batch with only about 130 slides in total. There are dates (month and year) stamped on these that I assume indicates the date when the film was developed. They are all from the 1970s and early 1980s.
These were all scanned with an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner.
The slides in this set are all stamped with the date May 1974.
The last few sets have featured a boy and girl (or sometimes just one or the other) dressed up for what I have been assuming is prom. The first three photos in this set features the same girl in the same dress. These are stamped a month earlier than the the rest have been so far. Possibly it was an earlier roll of film that was finished first. I did notice a magazine in a basket in a photo from a previous set that I was able to identify as the April 1974 issue of Popular Science. See the left edge of the last photo in the previous set.
The last photo shows a cat sitting on a motorcycle. This is likely outside the same house which appears to be on a farm somewhere but I haven't been able to narrow down the location any further yet.
I've been trying to figure out what model TV is featured in some of these photos but no luck yet. ChaptGPT was far from conclusive but suggested it was likely an RCA XL-100 Console TV with the chassis family likely CTC-48 through CTC-74 (various XL‑100s in the 1973–1975 period used these). A color TV this size at the time would have probably cost around $500 which is the equivalent of about $3000 today.
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:
The One (January 1993)
https://ecency.com/retrogaming/@darth-azrael/the-one-january-1993
Vintage Photos - Lot 4 (017-020)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-4-017
Zephyr (DOS, 1994)
https://ecency.com/hive-140217/@darth-azrael/zephyr-dos-1994
Vintage Photos - Lot 4 (013-016)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-4-013
Byte (December 1976)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/byte-december-1976
Vintage Photos - Lot 4 (009-012)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-4-009
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The Altar Path by Joseph Lisiewski.
Red Star Falling by Steve Berry.
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