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Santa Cruz, Box 48, 1948
This box has a few pencil marks. There are two names, Lois and Irene. The imagery covered here is situated between 1947 and 1948. Eighteen negatives in total and it’s a various collection again. The positive twist is that the beach images seem to be from the Santa Cruz area. Joel has been visiting and…
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SJC Pool, Box 47, 1947
It is not clear from the 12 negatives in this box if this is 1947 or 1948 academic year. Neither Naranjado 1947 or 1948 covers water polo images. Joel does manage to get some good action shots. And while nothing is happening in the pool, he’s active in the surrounding area. Next images were most…
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Beach, Box 46, August 1946
Stepping some two years back, this box has “August 1946” pencilled on it. We’ve seen few beach images in 1946 already, and these negatives seem to be part of the same time period. These images are of the “snapshot” variety, the photography documenting the who, what, where, why of things. The first image though could…
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The rest of Box 45, 1948
There are 9 negatives left in box 45. The majority is photographed at College of the Pacific, sometime during Spring 1948. The first negatives I came across are playing in an elementary school, we can’t be sure what the occasion is, possibly a show-and-tell. The teacher might be a friend of Joel, or Joel misplaced…
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Sports, Box 45, 1948
This is one of the heavy negative boxes. Twenty nine negatives crammed in the package. The main subject is a variety of sports at College of Pacific in 1948. I was able to verify that some of these images were represented in a cropped form in Naranjado 1948. It is always good to find confirmation.…
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The rest of Box 44, April 1948
There were 8 more negatives in box 44 we didn’t check out in previous blog post. These represent a variety of subjects with little background available. First two images are from a family event with siblings Harry, Clara, Amy Pahl and Edra Portsmouth, Harry’s spouse, from left to right below. I found out recently, through…
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More COP Parties, Box 44, 1948
The pencil marks on this box simply says “April Dance”. There’s total of 24 negatives, and there are multiple subjects. Although Joel Dardis is credited in the 1948 Naranjada yearbook, none of the images in this, and following, blog posts, are published in the “Big Days Section”. From what I can gather, the Rhizomia “and…
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SS President Cleveland, Box 43, April 5, 1948
This box of negatives mainly contains negatives taken during an onboard tour of the SS President Cleveland. There is no further information available on the box. President Cleveland was originally ordered by the Maritime Commission during World War II, as a transport ship, and intended to serve in the US Navy with the name USS Admiral D. W. Taylor The ship was laid…
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Mardi Gras, Box 42, 1948
Although there’s a date of April 15, 1948 pencilled on the box, we can’t be sure that this is the exact date of Mardi Gras in this case for 1948, as this event typically happens sometime in May. Nevertheless, some of the images matchup subject wise with the Mardi Gras images in Naranjado 1948 and…
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Mary Ann, Box 41, April 1948
This blogpost will look at the second series of negatives in this portfolio shoot with Mary Ann Ferguson, spread over April 9 and 10, 1948. One more tidbit about Mary Ann Ferguson, she was part of the Mardi Gras Queen’s Court for Alpha Theta Tau. The next images are all taken poolside at COP. Joel…
Finding Joel Pahl Dardis 