Vintage Photos - Oestreicher (1517-1520)

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/

Like an earlier set, this set contains a mix of photos from what appears to be a Christmas parade in St. Petersburg, Florida and some shots in a very poor neighborhood that may have been in the same general area or elsewhere. Though not labeled or dated, these were likely taken in the late 1950s or early 1960s. As the poor neighborhood appears to be an entirely black neighborhood from what I can tell from the photos, I'll point out that these were likely taken when Jim Crow laws were still in full effect, in the middle of the modern Civil Rights movement and before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed. These slides were pretty badly faded so I've included versions processed with color restoration and Digital ICE.










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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