Last year I started scanning old slides of Lynn and Sue’s but I stopped once I realized I didn’t have all the slides and it would be best to have them all in order.
I finally got a hold of all of them. It took a few hours to organize them into piles according to their datestamp.
I don’t know much about slides but I can only imagine that the datestamp on them is the date they were actually printed.
For example, you can see that in the top right corner there is Sep 78T3. I have to assume that this means the batch of slides were created in September 1978. I’m not entirely sure what the T3 means. There are other batches that have T1, T2…some others don’t have any mention of a T. I’ll have to contact some folks who might know the answer.
Putting them in order is an interesting puzzle. For example, I’m organizing everything by datestamp, but in some cases I have doubles of datestamps. There might be two slides that say 81-March001. Now…what happened there? Did they drop off two rolls of film and because they were processed on the same date, they come out saying it was done in March 1981 and they have the same sequence? I’m not sure about that one yet…this just adds a bit more puzzle to decipher because now I have to figure out which photos go with which sequence. If there is a wedding starting out on one of the slides marked Slide 1, then it stands to reason that the second slide should be a wedding photo as well. So that will be an interesting adventure when it comes to it.
I really enjoy digitizing old media…slides, photo albums, home movies…it gives me a glimpse into the past and I’m sure it makes folks happy that they can see photos they forgot about in the past.