Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (057-060)

14 days ago

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 n this set have the date August 1968 stamped on them and feature some kind of a day camp for kids and a zoo trip.

The first photo is in fact labeled "Day Camp 68" and shows a bunch of kids looking at some kind of creature in a cage. Maybe a snake?

The next three photos are all labeled "Zoo Trip". The second shows kids getting off of a bus, presumably at the zoo. The adult in the back has some kind of writing on it but unfortunately, I can't make out what it is. The third photo shows kids looking at some monkeys. The last photo shows kids looking into a caged area but I can't see what kind of animal is in there. The same woman seen getting off of the bus in the second photo can also be seen but I still can't make out what her shirt says.

_{Day Camp 68}

_{Zoo Trip}

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:

Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (053-056)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-6-053

Info (November/December 1986)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/info-november-december-1986

Zzap! 64 (June 1987)
https://ecency.com/retrogaming/@darth-azrael/zzap-64-june-1987

Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (049-052)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-6-049

PC World (November 2011)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/pc-world-november-2011

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Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling.
You Like It Darker by Stephen King.

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