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Bruddas Monkey Woman in Red, c. 1937. Kodachrome Glass Mounted Slide. What’s everyone looking at? Who are these guys? Celebrities from some town, from some time... Western Star Boat. Somewhere in Mexico. I can’t explain why but this 1986 picture of the Sovran... Desert sands in the foreground, snow-capped mountain peaks in... Ball Game. April, 1959. The only one in this picture with his eye on the ball is the guy... I think this picture is from somewhere in Nebraska. The $3.95... Sometimes I try to imagine where a picture was taken. Pictures... I hope we get a lot of snow this winter. A cellist from 1943 looks through the cracked pane of a... Boy on a Big Wheel Sometimes the look in a child’s eyes bear the disdain and... YOU Courtship, 1940s Kid in a Clown Suit. More than the ambivalent child in the clown... You spring from my loin. Now swim! |
The name for this set of family slides ("U.S. Forces in Germany") is taken from the license plate of the family car. This series of nearly 900 slides opens a window into the lives of an American family living in Germany in the 1950s. The slides from the 1950s span 1952-1960, and then there are no slides again until 1976, by which time everyone looks very different. This set of slides primarily stars a couple of amazingly cute kids. These slides are organized in two sets, reflecting the order in which I received them. The first section contains nearly 400 slides I plucked from a dozen Argus Slide Magazines. These slides, all of them Kodachrome, were virtually spotless, without even a speck of dust on them. I had to force the slides out of the magazines, indicating to me that these slides had not been looked at for a very long time. The remaining sets of slides were stored in cardboard boxes and include Kodachrome, Pakon, and slides with no brand name printed on them. All slides were scanned with a Pacific Image PowerSlide 3650 Slide Scanner.
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