<p>See the previous post in this series <a href = "https://steemit.com/photography/@darth-azrael/5zttka-florida-early-1970s-18">here</a>. Feel free to skip the quoted intro text if you have read it before.</p>

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<p>I had the opportunity to pick up a huge batch of slides recently. These are pictures spanning from as early as the late 1940s to as late as the early 1990s (maybe earlier and/or later but these are what I have sampled so far). These came to me second hand but the original source was a combination of estate sales and Goodwill. There are several thousand...maybe as many as 10,000. I will be scanning some from time to time and posting them here for posterity.</p>
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<p>Apparently, getting your pictures processed as slides used to be a fairly common thing but it was a phenomenon I missed out on. Though my family used some obscure technologies (disc film comes to mind), we always had regular prints. Having said that, my Grandfather had a few dozen slides (circa late 1950s) that I acquired after he died. That along with some negatives is what prompted me to buy a somewhat decent flatbed scanner that could handle slides and negatives (an Epson V600). That was the most money I was willing to spend on one anyway. It can scan up to four slides at a time with various post-processing options and does a decent enough job. The scanner has been mostly idle since finishing that task but now there is plenty for it to do.</p>
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<p>Like most of the previous sets so far, these were all taken in Florida somewhere but I do not know exactly where. Click on 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.</p>

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<a href = "https://www.megalextoria.com/slides/index.php?twg_album=Cypress_Gardens&twg_offset=144&twg_foffset=0,0">https://www.megalextoria.com/slides/index.php?twg_album=Cypress_Gardens&twg_offset=144&twg_foffset=0,0</a>