Random Thumbnail: 1950s - Woman being followed by a black bear

Random Thumbnail: 1950s - Boy in front of the television

There are currently 1262 pictures in the database.

Typical Subjects
Holidays, birthdays, weddings, picnics, families, children, couples, relatives, travel, family vacations, cruises, tourist traps, roadside attractions, service stations, businesses, town views, street scenes, ma and pa shops, parades, amusement parks, mountains, lakes, beach scenes, vintage cars and anything else you might expect to find in a vintage carousel of slides. The images are from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s & 1980s.

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Condition of Photographs
Pictures were selected for the subjects/topics, not condition. In fact, the majority of the slides were not cleaned beyond a spray on both sides with compressed air. Some of the shots may even be blurry, too light or too dark. Some may be speckled or contain an errant piece of lint or a vintage eyelash. Again, the story is the focus.

Quality of Scans
All slides were scanned at 2400-4800 DPI on a variety of scanners over the last 8 years. Most of the resulting scans were saved as .tiffs. Landscape images were resized to 1000 pixels and portrait were resized to 800. They were saved as .jpgs with very low compression. Some of the slides are modified with fade correction and other tricks to make them viewable. Please keep this in mind when asking about purchasing the original high resolution scans.