After getting a new scanner several years ago to scan some old film slides my grandparents had, I picked up several batches of slides from Goodwill and on eBay. I'm not sure why these commonly wind up at places like that but I know that some have ultimately come from estate sales. Maybe family members just don't know what to do with them. I've seen them listed as being for arts and crafts so I assume there are those that use them for that purpose. I was more interested in the actual contents. Each slide is a little piece 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 as an interesting way to look back at the past.
Most of 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 (though some do). 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.
When I say "batch" I mean a bunch 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 is a group of slides 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.
These were all scanned with an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner.
According to handwritten dates, these were taken in June 1957, however, I believe they were likely actually taken in July.
The photos in this set all feature the Mayflower II. This is a replica of the original Mayflower that was built in England in 1956-1957 based on reconstructed blueprints held by the Plimoth Patuxet Museum. It was sailed from England to Plymouth, MA arriving on June 22, 1957. It was then towed up the East River to New York City on July 1st, 1957. I believe these photos were taken in New York City which would mean they were likely taken in July.
The Mayflower II is currently docked at State Pier in Pilgrim Memorial State Park in Plymouth, Massachusetts and can be visited there.
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:
Palamedes (NES) https://ecency.com/hive-140217/@darth-azrael/palamedes-nes
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (725-728) https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-725
Digital Archaeology: Floppy Disk #14 – LORDMHM.DOC https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/digital-archaeology-floppy-disk-14-a20027a3b637b
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (721-724) https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-721
Zzap! 64 (November 1987) https://ecency.com/retrogaming/@darth-azrael/zzap-64-november-1987
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (717-720) https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-717
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