Welcome to Found Slides!

Get ready to sift through thousands of snapshots from around the world. We begin with 1949 and will be skipping around from year to year and place to place to keep it interesting.

This ever-growing collection primarily consists of Kodachrome, Ektachrome and Agfachrome transparencies by Irma Louise (Carter) Rudd and John H. Rudd her husband. Irma Louise passed away aged 100 in 2013- John around 1981. The Rudds were both avid photographers who met at the South Bay Camera Club of Southern California in 1954. Irma Louise had founded the club in 1944. They lived in the Palos Verdes area of Los Angeles but traveled extensively.

They had no children and remained married until John's death. Irma Louise carried on at her photography and her duties at the club until her final decade.

The slides will speak for themselves. Irma Louise was especially meticulous and so the dates, places and subjects have been mostly preserved, along with the camera settings for each shot (which I have not included.) I have used the titles as they appear on the slide (if there is one) with very few minor corrections or additions where appropriate.

I hope to get to scanning them all one day, but there may be as many as 15,000 total, so please be patient, and enjoy.

Paul