Vintage Photos - Oestreicher (1497-1500)

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/

The first and third photos were processed in March 1960 and taken in 1960 somewhere over the Andes. The second photo was also processed in March 1960 but on a beach somewhere, presumably in South or Central America.

The last photo was processed in August 1967 and features a pirate ship. This almost looks like a theme park... I see spotlights in the lower right corner and over to the left part of a name etched into the foliage but only the letters 'VSEY' (I think). Anybody know where this might be?

Most of these were badly faded so I uploaded the versions processed with color restoration and Digital ICE.


processed March 1960


processed March 1960


processed March 1960 - Andes from plane '60


processed August 1967


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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