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**Sarah Sammis** @pussreboots@sfba.social · 1d

Sarah Sammis @pussreboots@sfba.social

Apes Den, Gibraltar, July 1963:

A blue car parked at a low wall. There's a scrubby tree which obscures a view of the ocean. Between the wall and the car is a sign:
Warning:
Persons feeding Rock Apes do so at their Own Risk. Do not attempt to stroke or handle Rock Apes as they are liable to react violently to this or any sudden movement or sound.

Rock Apes
Do not feed apes that are roaming

Warning
Apes react violently to sudden movements and sounds and often carry away articles such as hand bags and cameras

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**Sarah Sammis** @pussreboots@sfba.social · 1d

Sarah Sammis @pussreboots@sfba.social

Barcelona, July 1963: Estàtua de Frederic Soler (Pitarra)

A tree lined street. At the end is a statue of a man sitting. Near the statue is the Hostel Marco. There are some cars parked in the shade in the foreground.

#SlideScanning #35mm #VintagePhotography

**Sarah Sammis** @pussreboots@sfba.social · 2d

Sarah Sammis @pussreboots@sfba.social

A Gibraltar street scene from July, 1963.

#SlideScanning #ColorSlide #Gibraltar #1963 #VintagePhotography #35mm

A crowded street scene with various shops: Bombay-Bazaar, Kodak, Remington Agency, Borsalino, etc.

**Sarah Sammis** @pussreboots@sfba.social · 6d

Sarah Sammis @pussreboots@sfba.social

2/22/1962: Parma, Ohio

Mrs. Koch and Mrs. Nimy shovel snow in front of their homes.

On the left, a red brick house. On the right, a yellow wood paneled house. In the middle a shared drive way mostly covered in about six inches of snow. Two older women in conservative black coats pose with their snow shovels.

#SlideScanning #Parma #Ohio

**Sarah Sammis** @pussreboots@sfba.social · Mar 29

Mar 29

Sarah Sammis @pussreboots@sfba.social

11/20/1959: the birthday girl in blue poses with a ceramic cat she received as a gift.

Who she is? No clue yet. Location: probably Milwaukee, WI. Beyond that, no clue yet.

The last third of this box of slides is truly mysterious and is refusing to give up many of its secrets.

#SlideScanning #35mm #VintagePhotography #ColorSlide #1959

Young woman, probably late teens to mid twenties, sits in a padded rocking chair. She's in a royal blue dress with a broach and a black belt. She's holding a white ceramic cat on her lap.

**Sarah Sammis** @pussreboots@sfba.social · Mar 27

Mar 27

Sarah Sammis @pussreboots@sfba.social

I'm scanning slides today. I have photo of an ornate room... walls are a golden color. Seats are upholstered in red. There's a woman in a red dress who is visiting. There's a man dressed casually but the way he's sitting and the way he looks completely at ease in this setting makes me suspect he is important.

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**Sarah Sammis** @pussreboots@sfba.social · Mar 26

Mar 26

Sarah Sammis @pussreboots@sfba.social

Another shot of the same room. It's Christmas 1959 and the TV is on. What do you think they were watching?

A room decorated for Christmas. The wall by the TV is covered in numerous holiday cards. A small nativity scene is set up on top of the TV. On the TV is a dimly visible image of a man in a dark suit standing near a woman with dark hair in a light colored dress. The image is black and white.

Cropped view of the TV screen with the contrast brought up to make the darker areas darker. Now we can see that the man appears to have male pattern baldness and might be wearing glasses.

#VintagePhotography #VintageTV #ColorSlide

**Sarah Sammis** @pussreboots@sfba.social · Mar 26

Mar 26

Sarah Sammis @pussreboots@sfba.social

Christmas 1959. I love how well preserved the colors and details are.

A woman in blue and a woman in lavender sit together on a piano bench in a room with a Christmas tree and numerous other seasonal decorations.

#SlideScanning #ColorSlide #VintagePhotography

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**Sarah Sammis** @pussreboots@sfba.social · Mar 23

Mar 23

Sarah Sammis @pussreboots@sfba.social

Look how much the tree has grown. There's 47 years between photos.

The duplex house again but this time with the curb visible. On the verge by the sidewalk is a sapling.

Street view from 2022 showing the curb and now a much taller, bigger tree.

#SlideScanning #35mm #VintagePhotography

**Sarah Sammis** @pussreboots@sfba.social · Mar 23

Mar 23

Sarah Sammis @pussreboots@sfba.social

Sometimes putting in a house number and a state is enough to find a place.

The slide is from August 1975 and the screenshot is from Google Maps (street view).

A 35mm color slide of a two story duplex. White siding on the top floor. Brick on the bottom store. Two white doors in the middle with house numbers. On the one to the right is a family gathered. A woman is styling an older woman's hair.

Street view of the same place from December 2022. Same white siding upstairs and brick downstairs. Same white doors.

#35mm #VintagePhotography #SlideScanning

**Sarah Sammis** @pussreboots@sfba.social · Mar 22 *

Mar 22 *

Sarah Sammis @pussreboots@sfba.social

The photo is from September 1971:

Ideas on where this road is/was? My working theory is somewhere in Michigan.

A four lane divided highway curving in a reverse C. At the end of the curve above the line of trees is a mountain or hill that has been flattened probably by mining.

#SlideScanning #VintagePhotography #35mm

**Sarah Sammis** @pussreboots@sfba.social · Mar 22 *

Mar 22 *

Sarah Sammis @pussreboots@sfba.social

July 1961: Two women in beautiful dresses sit on a bench near some flowers.

A circular area of flwoers. Sitting on one of the green benches before a low curving hedge that delineates the flower area from the grassy area that runs back to a line of trees, are two women. The one on the left is in a blue dress. The one on the right is in a dusty rose dress.

#SlideScanning #ColorSlide #VintagePhotography

**Sarah Sammis** @pussreboots@sfba.social · Mar 22

Mar 22

Sarah Sammis @pussreboots@sfba.social

I don't know who they are but the couple in the center celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary, circa 1958.

A long white banquet table. And old man in a dark suit and red tie on the left. An old woman in a blue dress. An old man in a gray suit and tie. A younger woman in a beige dress who is talking to someone off screen. In front of the blue dress woman and gray suit man is a cakee with a 50 sticking out of along with a floral display.

#SlideScanning #ColorSlide #35mm

**Sarah Sammis** @pussreboots@sfba.social · Mar 22

Mar 22

Sarah Sammis @pussreboots@sfba.social

There's no date on this slide. From the people in it (and dates on other slides, I'm guessing early 1960s).

A grassy area near a flag pole. In the foreground a card table is set up. Four men sit around it playing cards. A woman in blue hugs her arms around the neck and shoulders of the man at the back corner of the table.

#SlideScanning #ColorSlides #35mm

**Sarah Sammis** @pussreboots@sfba.social · Mar 20

Mar 20

Sarah Sammis @pussreboots@sfba.social

1967: Menemsha Bike Ferry

A ferry mid way through a body of water. Behind is a slow slip of land with homes, trees, and other smaller sailboats.

#SlideScanning #35mm #VintagePhotography

**Sarah Sammis** @pussreboots@sfba.social · Mar 20

Mar 20

Sarah Sammis @pussreboots@sfba.social

1967: Cuttyhunk Island - a group standing on the cliffs.

#SlideScanning #VintagePhotography #ColorSlide #35mm #1967

A look up a sandy cliff. A woman in a pink dress and white sweater stands midway down the slope. Behind her on the top of the cliff are four other people.

**Sarah Sammis** @pussreboots@sfba.social · Mar 20

Mar 20

Sarah Sammis @pussreboots@sfba.social

November 1961: two women and a baby.

I think this is Germany given other slides in this grouping.

#SlideScanning #VintagePhotography #ColorSlide #1961

A stone wall, a window with bars, some flowering bushes. A white pram in which sits a small child wearing a white bonnet. Near the baby a woman in a white dress leans over to pose with the child. Near those to is an older woman with bobbed hair. She's wearing a floral print dress.

**Sarah Sammis** @pussreboots@sfba.social · Mar 14

Mar 14

Sarah Sammis @pussreboots@sfba.social

July 1961: Some budgie enrichment

#ColorSlide #SlideScanning #35mm #1961 #BirdsOfFediverse #VintagePhotography

Person holding up a jingle bell and a perch to a blue and white budgie. The bird is standing on the edge of a round mirror which is situated on a floral tablecloth. The bird seems interested.

**Sarah Sammis** @pussreboots@sfba.social · Mar 13 *

Mar 13 *

Sarah Sammis @pussreboots@sfba.social

For the last collection in the Americana-Images slide box I finally have an American city, Cleveland, Ohio. So the family who toured Germany, Belgium and took a cruise were from Cleveland.

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