Vintage Photos - Oestreicher (1369-1372)

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 but some were originally from estate sales. There are many thousands of these slides. I will be scanning some from time to time and posting them here for posterity.

Getting your pictures processed as slides used to be pretty common but it was a phenomenon I missed out on. However, my Grandfather had a few dozen slides from the late 1950s that I acquired after he died. That along with having some negatives I wanted to scan is what prompted me to buy a flatbed scanner that could handle slides and negatives, an Epson V600. It can scan up to four slides at a time with various post-processing options and does a decent enough job for what I was willing to spend.

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, or perhaps a friend or family member, from the Spokane Washington area and later Northern Idaho named Leo Oestreicher. He was known for his portrait and landscape photography and especially for post cards. His career started in the 1930s and he died in 1990. These slides contain a lot of landscape and portrait photos but also a lot of photos from day to day life and various vacations around the world. 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. I expect that in MOST cases these photos were taken relatively near the processing date.

Click the link below to also see versions processed with color restoration and Digital ICE which is a hardware based dust and scratch remover, a feature of the Epson V600 scanner I am using. There are also versions processed with the simpler dust removal option along with color restoration.

There are a mix of photos here and while none are labeled or dated, they are probably from the late 1950s to early 1960s. The first features a couple of people snorkeling or scuba diving in a lake or some other body of water in what I would guess is the Pacific Northwest somewhere. The second shows a white picket fence and a sign that says Winter Home. It says some other stuff too and if it were clear enough to read maybe I could figure out what or who this was the winter home of. The third shows two individuals standing in front of what might be banyan trees. There is a sign warning them to stay off the grass. In the final photo we have boxes of bees. Photos from this place with the bees have shown up in several previous sets. All of the scans here were processed with Digital ICE and color restoration because they were badly faded.

The entire collection that has been scanned and uploaded so far can also be found here.