Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (633-636)

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 on 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 listed as being for arts and crafts so I assume 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.

When I say "batch" I mean 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.

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 circa June 1957 as that was when this film was processed based on the dates stamped on them.

All of these photos appear to be a continuation from the previous set and were taken at a place called Africa-U.S.A. This was an African wildlife tourist attraction located in Boca Raton, Florida on 300 acres near U.S. 1. It was open from 1953 until 1961. You can see more about this park here.

The first photo features a few of the different animals that could be seen at this park. More animals can be seen in the second photo, mostly Zebras and a couple of camels. The third photo features a closer up view of a couple of camels. The lsat photo features an Ostrich...with another camel lounging in the background. These were all probably taken from a "train" that travels through the park. The train really being a jeep pulling several cars with people.

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.