Vintage Photos - Oestreicher (1513-1516)

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/

None of the slides in this set are labeled or dated. However, they were likely taken in the late 1950s or early 1960s and appear to have been taken in Florida from what I can tell. The first photo features some orange groves which you can certainly see in Florida (though California is another likely candidate). The second photo features a lady standing out in front of her home which appears to be a mobile home. The third photo looks like some kind of residential area with lots of live oak trees full of Spanish moss, another common feature in Florida. The last photo appears to have been taken in the same area and in this one you can see that the road has been partially built around a gigantic tree.

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.