Vintage Photos - Oestreicher (1090-1093)

See the previous post in this series here.

I had the opportunity to pick up a huge batch of slides a while back. These pictures span from as early as the late 1940s to as late as the early 1990s. These came to me second hand but the original source was a combination of estate sales and Goodwill. There are many thousands of these slides. I will be scanning some from time to time and posting them here for posterity.

Getting your pictures processed as slides used to be a fairly common thing but it was a phenomenon I missed out on. However, my Grandfather had a few dozen slides from the late 1950s that I acquired after he died. That along with having some negatives I wanted to scan is what prompted me to buy a somewhat decent flatbed scanner that could handle slides and negatives, an Epson V600. It can scan up to four slides at a time with various post-processing options and does a decent enough job.

This set continues a rather large batch of slides that originally came from an estate sale and appear to have belonged to a locally well known photographer (or perhaps a friend or family member) from the Spokane Washington area and later Northern Idaho named Leo Oestreicher. He was known for his portrait and landscape photography and especially for post cards. His career started in the 1930s and he died in 1990. These slides contain a lot of landscape and portrait photos but also a lot of photos from day to day life and various vacations around the world. Here's an article on him from 1997 which is the only info I have found on him: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/jan/04/photos-of-a-lifetime-museum-acquisition-of-leo/

Many of these slides had the date they were processed stamped or printed on them. I've found that in cases where I could verify the date, either because a more specific date was hand written or there was something to specifically date the photo in the photo itself, that this date has typically been the same month the photos were taken. In other words, I expect that in MOST cases these photos were taken relatively near the processing date.

Click the link below to also see versions processed with color restoration and Digital ICE which is a hardware based dust and scratch remover, a feature of the Epson V600 scanner I am using. There are also versions processed with the simpler dust removal option along with color restoration.

The first photo was processed in June 1966 and shows a place called "Oak Island Resort". There happen to be a lot of resorts wtih "Oak Island" in the name but I found a web site online (oakislandresort.com) that looks like it might be the place. It is in Minnesota.

processed June 1966

Here is a more recent photo taken from the website of what I believe to be the same place:

The second photo was also processed in June 1966 and was probably taken at the same place. Here you can see a sea plane and the tail number is clearly visible. I tried to do some research on it. Initially, I could only find a plane that was build in 1980. Apparently tail numbers get reused. Then I found the following on planephd.com:

Current tail: N32DB

Used to be: N8212V

Aircraft type: PistonSingle

Manufacturer: CESSNA

Model: 180H

Year: 1966

Serial number: 18051714

Owner: DIVE BOMB INDUSTRIES LLC

So that is possibly the same plane. Built in 1966 it would mean this photo was taken when it was nearly brand new.

processed June 1966

Apparently it is still flying as I found the following flight path from a flight in early March for tail N32DB:

The third photo was also processed in June 1966 and was probably taken at the same place (Oak Island Resort) and is another photo taken of the lake.

processed June 1966

The final photo is not labeled or dated but I'm guessing it is from roughly the same time period (late 1960s) and was taken in Central or South America.

The entire collection that has been scanned and uploaded so far can also be found here.