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/
All of the slides in this set were processed in January 1972 and these photos were probably taken around that time. The first shows a small boy, the second is a shot of a woman and the last two are from a wedding.
processed January 1972
processed January 1972
processed January 1972
processed January 1972
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.
What a happy group of people in those photos, some 50 years ago. Makes a person wonder what happened that the pictures and slides ended up so readily discarded. So many stories I'm sure these folks have to tell.
I suspect the original photographer/owner of the slides died and whoever found themselves in possession of them just didn't know what to do with them...or care I guess. I'm surprised how often this sort of thing winds up in a Goodwill or on eBay.
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