This directory contains scans of about 400 35mm color slides by my late father-in-law H. William Stolmack. Bill and Molly's slides were not well organized when I inherited them in 2014. I reorganized them chronologically (roughly) in 10/2014, scanned them in 11/2014 using my Nikon Coolscan 5000 at 4000 dpi (producing uncropped 5782 px x 3946 px scans), finally got around to cataloging and posting the scanned images in 2/2019, and cropped and did minor cleanup in 8-9/2021 (see detailed notes). Most of the slides are Kodachrome, and most of those survived the passing decades well, while most slides using other color processes are now badly faded. The slides were not well cared for, and I did not perform extensive per-slide cleanup before scanning, so many of the scans show scatches or dirt.
Bill took the earliest slides on Guam while he was stationed there during WWII. He took slides through the early 1960s but then switched to prints. I believe the few post-1962 slides listed here were taken by other people.
Slides are grouped here chronologically. Dates for earlier slides are just educated guesses (directory names yyyy or yyyya etc.), but most slides developed after 3/1959 have datestamps (month and year) on the slide mount (directory names yyyy_mm). Some of Bill's slides have caption/date information handwritten by Molly on the slide mount (added ex post facto, and sometimes incorrect) and some surely remain misfiled. Kodak slide mount chart shows approximate dates for mounts predating mount datestamps and my slide mounts page shows all the mounts from slides I have scanned.
Directory | Description |
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1945 | Subject: Guam during Bill's WWII US Navy service. Location: Guam. Date: 1945 per HWS' handwritten notations. Note: Handwritten notations "Guam" and "Guam July 1945" on mounts by HWS. Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides in undated mounts with embossed numbers; faded. |
1946 | Subject: Molly/Bill. Location: SF, Lake Tahoe. Date: Approximately 1946-1947 per Molly's handwritten captions. Originals: Ansco Color 35mm slides in undated mounts; badly faded. |
1947 | Subject: Molly/Bill. Location: SF, Santa Cruz Mts., Berkeley. Date: Approximately 1946-1947. Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides in undated mounts with embossed numbers |
1948a | Subject: Molly/Bill/Alan. Date: 1948 per handwritten notations by MKS on the slide mounts. Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides in undated mounts with embossed numbers. |
1948b | Subject: Painted Desert and Grand Canyon. Date: Approximately 1948. Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides in undated mounts with embossed numbers. |
1948c | Subject: Molly/Bill; Molly pregnant with Alan. Date: Approximately 1948. Originals: 35mm slides in undated Drewry Photocolor mounts; badly faded. Presumably dups. |
1949a | Subject: Molly/Bill/Alan. Date: 1949 per handwritten notations by MKS on the slide mounts. Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides in undated mounts with embossed numbers. |
1949b | Subject: Molly/Bill/Alan; Alan's first steps, Youngstown. Location: Youngstown OH. Date: Approximately 1949 per Alan's age. Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides in undated mounts with embossed numbers. |
1949c | Subject: Molly/Bill/Alan; Boulder Dam, Lake Mead. Location: Boulder Dam, Lake Mead. Date: Approximately 1949. Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides in undated mounts with embossed numbers. |
1949d | Subject: Molly/Bill/Alan trip to Chicago and Youngstown. Location: Chicago IL, Youngstown OH. Date: Approximately 1949 per Alan's age. Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides in undated mounts with embossed numbers. |
1950a | Subject: Molly/Bill/Alan/Bari. Date: 1950 is just a compomise dating: the mounts date these to 1948-1952. Note: A few slides have handwritten notations by MKS on the slide mounts. Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides in undated mounts with embossed numbers. |
1950b | Subject: Bari as a baby. Date: 1950. Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides in undated mounts with embossed numbers. |
1952a | Subject: Molly/Bill/Alan/Bari; Yosemite. Location: Yosemite. Date: Approximately 1952 per kids' ages and slide mount dating. Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides in undated mounts with black ink numbers. |
1952b | Subject: Molly/Bill/Alan/Bari. Date: Approximately 1952 per kids' ages and slide mount dating. Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides in undated mounts with black ink numbers. |
1953 | Subject: Alan/Bari at Fairyland in Oakland. Location: Oakland. Date: Approximately 1953 per kids' ages and slide mount dating. Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides in undated mounts with embossed numbers. |
1956 | Subject: Molly/Alan/Bari/Jay; Lake Tahoe. Location: Lake Tahoe. Note: A few have dates handwritten on the slide mount by MKS, e.g., "ca. 1956". Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides in undated mounts with red ink numbers. |
1958 | Subject: Molly/Alan/Bari/Jay; Alan playing baseball. Date: 1958 is purely a guess. Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides in undated mounts. |
1959 | Subject: Molly/Alan/Bari/Jay. Date: 1959 is purely a guess. Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides (processed by Technicolor) in undated gray mounts. |
1959_03 | Subject: Molly/Alan/Bari/Jay. Date: Developed 3/1959. Note: These are the earliest HWS slides with slide mount datestamps. Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides in datestamped mounts. |
1960_03 | Subject: Molly/Bill/Alan/Bari/Jay. Date: Developed 3/1960. Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides in datestamped mounts. |
1961_01 | Subject: Molly/Alan/Bari/Jay. Location: 56 Radnor Road, Oakland. Date: Developed 1/1961. Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides (processed by Technicolor) in mounts numbered in black ink. |
1961_09 | Subject: Molly/Bill/Alan/Bari/Jay. Location: Smith River per handwritten notation p02; others unknown. Date: Developed 9/1961. Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides (processed by Technicolor) in mounts numbered in black ink. |
1962 | Subject: Molly/Bill/Alan/Bari/Jay Stolmack, Oscar/Rose Nieponice: Ferry trip on SF Bay. Date: Estimated 1962, guessing from kid's ages (ca. 14/12/8). Originals: Undated 35mm slides from a single roll of film, mounts labeled "COLOR TRANSPARENCY". |
1962_02 | Subject: Molly/Alan/Bari/Jay. Date: Developed 2/1962. Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides (processed by Technicolor) in mounts numbered in black ink. |
1970 | Subject: HWS/MKS/[unknown]. Date: guessing ca. 1970, based solely on car. Note: Presumably the unknown figure in the pictures is a Brazilian student (Luis Roberto?) who stayed with Molly & Bill. Originals: Two half-frame 35mm slides, mounts "LOJAS BETTEGA S.A. / CURITIBA PR" (i.e, Curitiba Brazil). |
1971_12 | Subject: Amanda as baby. Location: Lake Arrowhead per handwritten slide mount notation. Date: Developed 12/1971; handwritten date "11/71" on mounts. Note: Presumably taken by Peter Grant. Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides in datestamped mounts. |
1973_04 | Subject: Molly/Bill/Jay/Amanda; Molly and Evonne Grant in SF. Location: 5720 Moraga, Oakland; SF. Date: Developed 4/1973. Note: Presumably taken by Peter Grant. Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides in datestamped mounts. |
1975_07 | Subject: Family gathering:
Molly/Bill/Alan/Bari/Jay/Lee/Amanda Stolmack, Minnie/Joe/Susan/Ruth Jurow, Evonne/Peter Grant. Location: 5720 Moraga, Oakland. Date: Developed 7/1975; "6/75" handwritten on one mount.. Note: Presumably taken by Peter Grant. Originals: Kodachrome 35mm slides in datestamped mounts. |
1984_07 | Subject: Artichoke farmers Molly & Bill in their backyard. Location: 5720 Moraga in Oakland. Date: Developed 7/1984. Original: Kodachrome 35mm slide in datestamped mounts. |
Nurnberg | Subject: Nürnberg Germany. Location: Nürnberg Germany. Date: ca. 1983-1984. Note: Undated commercial 35mm slides of Nürnberg from HWS. Originals: Slide mounts labeled "C.-P.-C. Color-Dia". |