Category: Color Slides

  • More Circus, Ansco Color Slide, 1947

    More Circus, Ansco Color Slide, 1947

    The next box I scanned had more circus subject and a few slides from a beach, Either Carmel or Santa Cruz, I still have to look for location clues. The circus slides below are all from the Clyde Beatty circus, photographed in first half May 1947 in Stockton. And in 1947, society looked differently at…

  • Drewry Photocolor Slides, 1947

    Drewry Photocolor Slides, 1947

    Nineteen 35mm slides in a yellow/blue plastic box, prominently labeled “Drewry Photocolor on the 2” square cardboard frames. I had no reference for the photo processing house. So I did some online sleuthing to see if I could learn more, and was able to distill following blurb from the obituary for William Wallace Drewry Jr.…

  • 35mm Ansco Color Slides, 1947-1948

    35mm Ansco Color Slides, 1947-1948

    I found a few undated 35mm color slides tucked away between all the negative boxes and sleeves. I was at first skeptical about the contents, without any written data on them. Turns out that Joel packed the 35mm camera with him when he went out with the larger Graflex Press cameras. In this case, there…