Vintage Photos - Oestreicher (1585-1588)

in #photography2 years ago

See the previous post in this series here.

I made some impulse buys after getting a new scanner and picked 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 were from Goodwill and eBay (sometimes via estate sales). There are many thousands of these slides. I will be scanning some from time to time and posting them here for posterity.

This set continues a large batch of slides that originally came from an estate sale and appear to have belonged to a locally well known photographer from the Spokane Washington area named Leo Oestreicher, or perhaps a friend or family member of his. These slides contain some landscape and portrait photos but also a lot of typical snapshot photos. 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/

I belive that the first three photos in this set were taken in the Ft. Myers, Florida area. In fact, the first and third are labeled as being in Ft. Myers. The second features a float from a Christmas parade. Previously I thought this parade was in the St. Petersburg area because there was a St. Petersburg sponsored float in one of the photos. However, it seems more likely now that it was in Ft. Myers. The last photo I am not sure about. There are too many hills for it to be Florida (especially the more Southern part of Florida) so it seems to have been taken at a different place and time. However, all of these were likely taken in the late 1950s or early 1960s.


Shrimp Boats - Ft. Myers, Fla.




Orange River - Ft. Myers, Fla.




The entire collection that has been scanned and uploaded so far can also be found here. This also includes higher resolution versions and versions with post processing.

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