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 photos was processed in April 1972 and appears to be taken from a car on a bridge going across a river. The second two photos are of "The Texas", the locomotive famous for being the principal pursuit engine in the Great Locomotive Chase. These slides were processed in October 1971 and the photos were probably taken near that time. In these photos, the locomotive has the appearance of roughly what it would have looked like during the Civil War. It has since been restored to an appearance closer to what it looked like in the 1870s. The last photo was processed in June 1967. Based on the haphazard appearance of the trees and the fact that the water level seems high (trees don't usually grow in a body of water...), I'm guessing this was taken in a bay or bayou not long after a hurricane had passed.
processed April 1972
processed October 1971
processed October 1971
processed June 1967
The entire collection that has been scanned and uploaded so far can also be found here.
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