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Kodachrome, Sep 13, 1946

This Kodachrome box, with processing date Sep 13, 1946 has a variety of subjects, making me believe there are a few misplaced slides here. Some of these fit with collections we’ve seen before, so here we go ! Two slides with goats. We’ll have to keep an eye out for future farm animal life, either…

April 28, 2022
Kodachrome, April 23, 1946

April 23, 1946 says the processing slip in the next box of Kodachromes sent back to Joel from the Los Angeles processing center. Clearly after the war, so we know Joel made it back home. There are 12 slides in a box of 12, but that doesn’t mean that they are in the proper box…

April 27, 2022
Kodachrome, March 28, 1944

On March 28, 1944, the Red Army captured Nikolaev, the main shipbuilding center of the Black Sea in southern Ukraine. Same day the British MP’s voted to give women teachers the same pay as men. When I found a Kodachrome box with a March 28, 1944 date, my hopes were high there would be slides…

April 26, 2022
Odds and ends, 1943

We found quite a few odds and ends in the 1943 marked boxes without knowing for sure if these slides were taken in 1943, prior to joining the service or maybe even on the few days he was able to get out of Camp Kohler (Sacramento Area.) Without any writing or documentation, we won’t know…

April 24, 2022
Florida, August 1943

It appears that on his days off, Joel played the tourist or he bounced back and forth between training sites. He visited multiple places in Florida and left us a few slides behind so we can piece some of it back together. On Sunday August 8, 1943, Joel is in Lakeland, Florida. All we have…

April 23, 2022
LA to NOLA, June 1943

There are just enough Kodachromes in this stack to figure out that on June 8, 1943 Joel was in Los Angeles California with few of his camp mates. The fountain in above slide gave away the location. This is Pershing Square in what is currently Downtown Financial Park. I believe the fountain is gone after…

April 22, 2022
Draft 1942, Enlistment, 1943

WIth a Friday Feb 19, 1943 date written on the 3 last press negative format boxes from that year, it somewhat hinted that Joel was preparing for another significant phase in his life. Joel’s Draft Card is dated Feb 14, 1942. The draft required all men between 21 and 45 to register for military service.…

April 21, 2022
COP Events, Football, 1942

To close this series of press negatives off, below are all the images from events labeled 1942. The majority are from a football match. There’s absolutely no other information available. Shooting sports with a press camera is no mean feat. There is no time to focus, all shooting is done in predetermined focus zones and…

April 20, 2022
Press Negatives, Box 11, 1942

Last box I found with the “Feb 19, 1943” date written on it and “Pictures Taken 1942” Twenty two negatives in a box of 12 and a mix of subjects. There’s also a mix of types of film based on shape of the notches on the negatives. Starting out with family images. One cannot escape…

April 19, 2022
Press Negatives, Box 10, 1942

When doing the first scan of the negatives in box 10, it becomes clear that boxes 9 through 11 got mixed and they all got a few stragglers in them. Twinty negatives squeezed in a box of 12, something has to give. All these negatives are, according to the writing on the box, photographed in…

April 18, 2022

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