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 eBay. I'm not sure why these commonly wind up at places like eBay 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 advertised as being for crafts and such so maybe 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.
Batch = 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.
Set = Subset of a batch. A group of slides 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 fours slides. Organizationally, it's just the easiest way for me to handle things.
These were all scanned with an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner.
I believe that the first photo was taken in Chinatown in New York City circa 1959. When I did an image search on Google, it came up with a very similar photo here: https://oldnycphotos.com/products/chinatown-6
The second photo has a sign in the lower left corner that says "Metropolitan Opera". I believe that this is the Old Metropolitan Opera House, located in New York City at 39th and Broadway, that was torn down in 1967. It had originally been built in 1883. This photo must have been taken through a window because I can see a reflection of a face just above and to the right of the sign.
The third photo, like the first, looks like it was taken in Chinatown in New York City.
I can't tell exactly where the last photo was taken but it also appears to be somewhere in New York City circa 1959.
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 post processing.
Check out some of my other recent posts:
Computer Gaming World (March 1989)
https://ecency.com/retrogaming/@darth-azrael/computer-gaming-world-march-1989
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (197-200)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-197
Daytona USA (Arcade)
https://ecency.com/hive-140217/@darth-azrael/daytona-usa-arcade
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (193-196)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-193
Compute!'s Gazette (November 1984)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/compute-s-gazette-november-1984
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (189-192)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-189
Check out my other Social Media haunts (though most content is links to stuff I posted on Hive or reposts of stuff originally posted on Hive):
Wordpress: https://www.megalextoria.com/wordpress
Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/darth-azrael
X: https://x.com/Darth_Azrael
Blogger: https://megalextoria.blogspot.com/
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:
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson
Total Power by Vince Flynn
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr by Nancy Isenberg
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