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Found Boots Colourslide, manually captioned "Dunkeld, 1976". Dunkeld is a town in Perthshire, Scotland.
Found Kodachrome slide, undated, but manually captioned "Winter 1961". I don't particularly remember the winter of 1961-62 so I don't think the weather was too bad. The real snow fell in 1962-63 and shut the whole country down for a week.
I found a bag of negatives and contact sheets at the Scrap Exchange (a local thrift store for raw art materials). For 75¢, it was mine. To turn them into positives, I took a photo with a macro lens while holding them in front of a piece of paper in front of my flash.
There wasn't much information on the negatives--one sheet said 1969, another 1970. No names, except for the occasional first name of the subject. One sheet was of photos of a stage production, and was labeled "Lion & Winter" (assuming this was actually "A Lion In Winter"). Another couple of sheets were photos of sculpture and were labeled "Museum of Modern Art NYC." Some photos of people goofing around, some portraits of a couple in various outdoor poses, some landscapes, one shot of someone surfing. One sheet said "Sweetwater", and sure enough, it's photos of the band Sweetwater from the '60s.
This set of photos I'm uploading appears to be from a protest gathering. Many of the people are wearing white armbands, there's music being played on acoustic guitars. In most of the shots, everyone looks a little concerned. I'm not certain, but the setting looks like UNC's pit area outside the student union.
If anyone has any idea who might have taken these, or if I'm right about the location and the nature of the event, do let me know.
UPDATE: People who are in these photos or who were present at this event have contacted me with info. This event is the National Moratorium Day Against the War, on UNC campus in 1969.
Rolduc is the name of a medieval abbey in Kerkrade, the Netherlands, which is now a Roman Catholic seminary and an affiliated conferencing center.
The 12th century abbey church is an example of Mosan art. The crypt and the choir and chancel above have a cloverleaf pattern. The interior of both the church and the crypt contains richly carved capitals. Remarkable is the fact that the columns in the crypt all have a different design. In 1853, the young architect Pierre Cuypers was commissioned to restore the crypt and to reinstate as much as possible the original Romanesque fabric.
The cloisters are largely 18th century. The abbey has a richly decorated Rococo library with an important collection of books. During the Middle Ages, the Rolduc library was one of the most famous libraries in the Meuse region. The history of the abbey was recorded in the so-called Annales Rodenses, a chronicle about the years between 1104-1157.
History
In 1104, a young priest by the name of Ailbertus of Antoing founded an Augustinian abbey in the Land of Rode, near the river Wurm. The abbey was called Kloosterrade, which later became 's-Hertogenrade (in French: Rode-le-Duc or Rolduc), after the ducal castle that was built across the Wurm. Ailbertus died in 1111 and his bones were later interred in the crypt. In 1136 the land of Rode, including the abbey, fell into the hands of the Duchy of Limburg. Kloosterrade was considered to be their family church. Several dukes of Limburg are buried at Rolduc, such as Walram III, whose cenotaph can be found in the nave of the church. During the 12th century and 13th century the abbey flourished. Several other communities were founded by Kloosterrade. In 1250 the abbey owned more than 3,000 hectares of land.
During the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries times were harder for the abbey in both spiritual and material terms. The buildings were heavily damaged during the Eighty Years War. Materialistically, the abbey began to prosper again in the late 17th century when revenue was generated from the exploitation of coal mines. In around 1775, Rolduc employed 350 mineworkers.
The abbey was dissolved by the French in 1796 and the buildings stood empty for 35 years. In 1815, when the Kingdom of the Netherlands was formed (see Vienna Congress), the border was drawn through the ancient land of Rode, separating the abbey from the castle. The eastern part (including the castle) became Prussian Herzogenrath and the western part (including the abbey) became part of the Dutch municipality of Kerkrade.
In the 19th century Rolduc became a famous boarding school run by Jesuits, and a seminary of the Diocese of Roermond.
The former abbey is now a secondary school (Charlemagne College, formerly College Rolduc), a Roman Catholic seminary, and the Rolduc Congress Center.
Found Kodachrome slide dated June 1969. According to Google this is Mont Orgueil Castle in Jersey, Channel Islands.
Found Kodachrome slide dated May 1969 showing the ruins of St Andrew's Cathedral, St Andrew's, Scotland.
A chap was selling a box of old negatives and slides at a car-boot sale, so I bought them. I don't really have any idea of the provenance of these other than where obvious clues are available.
The place is called St. James' Square, but I don't know in which town this was shot.
The photographer is unknown.
Found in our downstairs bathroom! Managed to get it safely into a container and placed it in the garden but only after I'd taken a few photos to remind us of this visitation ;)
Found this guy hiding in my camera bag. Pola from my cross country trip this summer. Taken at Arches National Park in Utah. I like it because it reminds me of a vintage tourist polaroid shot. And i like the contrasting colors, even if the red of the rock is a little washed out. I'm finally getting the rest of my film from this trip developed tomorrow! Oops. It probably expired in my camera(s).
Oh, and please, it pops if you View On Black