My grandfather Ross and his amazing wife Velda are moving, and he gifted me his complete slide collection and 1950's slide projector. Carol already has part of her grandfather's collection of slides. We even have our own collection from our vacations pre-digital photography. Remember then?
So finally armed with enough excuses, I decided to purchase a slide/film scanner. I was quickly able to enlist the support of my brother Robert and Carol's brother David. So we bought a Nikon Coolscan V and we're going to ship it around the country until we don't have any more slides or negatives we want to scan. Seems like that will keep us busy until we die.
Here are the early results.
The first set of Granddad's slides - a magazine called "France 2" - has pictures of Paris and others I don't recognize. I'm not sure, but I think these photos are from 1952.
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| Ross' Slides - "France 2" Magazine |
Here are two small sets of pictures from the Davidson Family Collection. It's a pretty random selection of family pictures. For those who don't know, the Davidsons are Carol's maternal grandparents.
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| Davidson photos, Lot 1 |
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| Davidson photos, lot 2 |
I'm leaving the country on Sunday so who knows when I'll post more.
