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…

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.…

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…

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…

Joel pencilled “Fersgsen (sic)” and “April 9-10, 1948” with “24 shot” on the Super Panchro Press Kodak Sheet FIlm box A total of 24 negatives, all about the same subject. A scan of Naranjado 1948 confirmed that the young lady was Mary Ann Ferguson, a freshman in 1948. A check through Pacific Weekly shows she…

The box has Omega Phi penciled in the corner with a date of February 13, 1948. It’s actually Omega Phi Alpha, and yes, this is another dance party. Looking at the negative, I can only think that Joel took a lesson from his previous dance party coverage and paid more attention during exposure and developing.…