Vintage Photos - Oestreicher (1437-1440)

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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/

Many of these slides had the date they were processed stamped or printed on them. In most cases these photos were probably taken relatively near the processing date.

The first three photos in this set were all processed in December 1968 and were probably taken on Christmas Day. If not then on Christmas Eve or some other Christmas party or event.

The last photos is labeled "Whale's Mouth - Carlsbad" and was taken on August 21st, 1963. "Whale's Mouth" is a natural formation in Carlsbad Caverns which is in New Mexico. Some more recent photos of this formation can be found at that national park's website here.


processed December 1968


processed December 1968


processed December 1968


Whale's Mouth - Carlsbad - Aug. 21 - 63


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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