Vintage Photos - Oestreicher (1509-1512)

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 two photos in this set were processed in January 1961 and probably taken at the same house which happens to include a swimming pool. The third photos was processed in August 1960 and features some kind of tower with other similar towers in the background. It is not immediately obvious to me what these towers are used for. The last photo was processed in March 1961 and appears to feature a slaughtered sea turtle. These are protected/endangered nowadays but I guess that wasn't true in 1961.


processed January 1961


processed January 1961


processed August 1960


processed March 1961


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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