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Stockton Parade, Ansco Color Slides, 1947
Just like with the other Ansco Color Slides, we have other B&W negatives to identify the date. In this case, the parade is most likely in 1947, but could be as early as 1946, basing the earlier year on the presence of Honor Guards, a strong indicator of post-WWII pride. I’ll discuss the intro image…
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Santa Cruz, Ansco Color Slide, 1947-48
All these slides fall in the entertainment category. It’s clear they are taken in Santa Cruz, there are many recognizable landmarks, most of them no longer there. It’s hard to tell which year this is exactly, but we know from B&W images in dated boxes that Joel was in Santa Cruz a few times between…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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Bush-Mack, Box 66, 1948
Joel photographed the wedding of Frances Mack with Philippe Bush on June 5, 1948. This was his first wedding shoot as far as I know. I wondered where the typical ring shot and first kiss went. After all, these are must-haves. And we found the shots tucked away in Box 66, together with a number…
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Rhizomia Dance, Box 66, Feb 28, 1948
Another Rhizomia event, this time in a box that is clearly labeled from a time and subject perspective. Rhizomia parties are well known for pushing the edge, that’s why Joel probably didn’t miss a single Rhizomite event. There’s a Parisian motif throughout this time, lingerie, Moulin Rouge, Folie Bergère, and edgy portraits adore the (papered)…
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Michael Pahl, Box 65, June 10, 1948
Baby Michael Lawrence Pahl was born Sept 8, 1947. If the date on the box is right, then he’s about 9 months old in most of these images. It’s quite possible a few earlier images are mixed in here, Joel photographed Michael quite a few times in 1948 as we’ve seen already. Before the barrage…
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Family etc, Box 64, June July 1948
This is another negative collection box with multiple subjects. The majority is Pahl family related, most likely on few different days. And yes, there are babies involved. First image is misplaced, it’s the start of a horse race and we’ve seen related images prior to this blog post when Joel was at Stanford University. Next…
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Shirley Salini, Box 63, 1953
This negative box, in-spite of the Feb 49 expiration date, contains images of three shoots with Shirley Salini. August 24, 1953, July 1954 and July 28, 1954. A little bit of research shows that Shirley Elizabeth Salini lived at 711 West Walnut, two blocks west of Joel. Furthermore, Shirley’s father Alton Salini, worked for the…
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