Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (133-136)

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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.

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.

This set contains photos spanning from as far back as at least 1959 to as recent as at least 1980. Other than these slides coming from eBay, I have no idea of their ultimate origin other than the clues provided in the photos themselves.

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

All of the slides in this set were taken in the mid 1960s, probably in the Lansing, Michigan area.

The first photo was processed in January 1966 and is labeled "MRPA State Meet Program 65". I have not yet figured out what MRPA stands for but there have been other photos from this event in other sets.

The second photo was processed in December 1964 and is labeled "Touch 64". Presumably this was a touch football game.

The last two photos were processed in December 1966 and are labeled "Senior Hazel PK Visit". The bus in the first of these two photos apparently came from a city called Hazel Park near Detroit. This was probably taken in Lansing so this appears to have been some kind of convention for seniors.

_{MRPA State Meet Program 65}

_{Touch 64}

_{Senior Hazel PK Visit}

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:

Popular Computing Weekly (December 18, 1986)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/popular-computing-weekly-december-18

Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (129-132)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-6-129

Maximum PC (February 2004)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/maximum-pc-february-2004

Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (125-128)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-6-125

The Games Machine (June 1988)
https://ecency.com/retrogaming/@darth-azrael/the-games-machine-june-1988

Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (121-124)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-6-121