Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (190-193)

8 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.

The photos in this set were takin in Michigan between 1957 and 1967.

The first photo is undated but shows the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan under construction. This bridge opened in November 1957 so this was probably some time earlier in 1957.

The next two photos are labeled "Sunset Charlevoix". Charlevoix is a city in Michigan where these were presumably taken. They are not dated but would have been taken in the late 1950s or 1960s.

The last photo was processed in July 1967 and is labeled "Battle of Bands - Everett Park". Everett Park is a park in Lansing Michigan.

_{Big Mac}

_{Sunset Charlevoix}

_{Battle of Bands - Everett Park}

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:

Byte (March 1984)
https://peakd.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/byte-march-1984

Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (186-189)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-6-186

Electronic Games (Winter 1981)
https://ecency.com/retrogaming/@darth-azrael/electronic-games-winter-1981

Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (182-185)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-6-182