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. I'm using the term "batch" to refer to 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. I'm using the term "set" to refer to 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 batch contains photos spanning from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. Other than these slides coming from eBay, I have no idea of their ultimate origin other than the clues provided in the photos themselves. The photographer seems to have been from Lansing, Michigan and many of the photos are from there. These were all scanned with an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner. All of the photos in this set were taken in the late 1950s or early 1960s, probably in the Lansing, Michigan area. The first photo is not dated but looks like it is from the early 1960s or earlier. It is labeled "Ed + Marlene" and I presume that's whose house this photo was taken at. The second photo was taken in 1959. It is labeled 'Francis 1959 - Plyg.'. I'm not sure who Francis refers to but this photo shows a bunch of kids on a playground on a type of playground equipment that was common at least through the 1980s before someone decided it was too dangerous. The third photo was taken in June 1960 and is labeled 'Hunter Park Playg equipment'. Based on other photos from this batch, the photographer or a family member was part of some kind of playground committee in the Lansing, Michigan area. The last photo is undated but was probably also taken in the late 1950s or early 1960s. It is labeled 'Jon - Jack Smith' which I assume are the names of the individuals in this photo.

_{Ed + Marlene}

_{Francis 1959 - Plyg.}

_{June '60 - Hunter Park Playg equipment}

_{Jon - Jack Smith}
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: Compute!'s Gazette (September 1985) https://ecency.com/@darth-azrael/compute-s-gazette-september-1985 Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (281-284) https://ecency.com/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-6-281 Digital Archaeology: Floppy Disk #14 – COMPUTER.DOC https://ecency.com/@darth-azrael/digital-archaeology-floppy-disk-14-fb419e0980174 Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (277-280) https://ecency.com/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-6-277 PC World (October 1996) https://ecency.com/@darth-azrael/pc-world-october-1996 --- Check out my other Social Media haunts: Wordpress: https://www.megalextoria.com/wordpress Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/darth-azrael Blogger: https://megalextoria.blogspot.com/ Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/darth-azrael.bsky.social Odyssee: https://odysee.com/@Megalextoria:b Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-2385054 Daily Motion: https://www.dailymotion.com/Megalextoria --- Books I am reading or have recently read: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling. Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling. --- Mine Monero in your browser! Earn Gridcoin while also helping various scientific projects by sharing your computer's idle CPU time! ---

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