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Stockton Camera Club, JFC, 1968
The Stockton Daily Evening Record of Thursday, November 11, 1948 has following front page news article: “The Stockton Camera Club was organized last night with 47 camera enthusiasts on hand for the meeting in Weber School Auditorium. The Club will meet every two weeks, with the next session set for November 23 at a place…
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Ceramics Critters, JFC, 1965
We’re setting the clock back to 1965. Joel photographed the shaping and decorating of what appears to be ceramic face masks. He called them “Critters” by lack of a better word in his vocabulary I guess. There’s no information retained on the 4×5″ negative sleeve on the what, when, who and where. Just showing the…
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45 N Hunter Street, JFC, Sep 1974
The previous blog post showed the front door of 45 N Hunter Street, Freeman – Rishwain Law Offices. By the time Joel returns to this site some three months later, the sign at the door has changed to “Law Offices of Freeman, Rishwain & Hall”. The principals are Maxwell M. Freeman, Robert J. Rishwain and…
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Stockton Sights, JFC, June 1974
This sleeve contains a variety of formats. The vast majority is 3 1/4″ x 5.5″, also known as 122 format roll film. This was a popular format in the beginning of the 20th century. (CIrca 1905 and later) I believe however Joel may have enlarged 120 format roll film onto the 3 1/4″ wide format…
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Red Lake, Tree, JFC, 1974
A total of four negatives in this 4×5″ negative sleeve out of the Jessica Fong collection of Dardis negatives. The tree is clearly the same tree we discussed in the “Carson Pass” sleeve. Red Lake is indeed in the Carson Pass area in the Eastern Sierras. The description fits. The 1974 date doesn’t jive with…
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Yosemite, JFC, 1965
This 4×5″ negative sleeve has “Yosemite, June 1965” in pencil writing. The majority of these images are of sequoia, and I believe these are in the Mariposa Grove at the South Entrance. This would have made most sense in light of the trip from Stockton at the time, and the observation Joel left us with…
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Lake Tahoe in 4×5, JFC, 1966
This 4×5″ negative sleeve from the Jessica Fong Collection of Dardis negatives plays at Lake Tahoe. The date is August 12, 1966. Joel is visiting or passing through there with friends. Joel is shooting 4×5 film, both standard B&W and few sheets of infrared. Joel is using a timer to trip the shutter of his…
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Selfies with Koni-Omega camera, JFC, 1971
This sleeve with 4×5″ negatives are all Joel selfies, upon closer examination, there are only two poses, and Joel created different “looks” of these negatives. It’s only a guess that these are circa 1971, but could of course be a few years later. Joel is 50 in 1971. The camera Joel is holding is Koni-Omega…
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Carson Pass, JFC, Nov 1971
These images taken in and around Carson Pass. This is an area Joel visited a few times. Earliest photograph in this area was a 1941 Kodachrome when Joel joined the College of Pacific yearly Death Valley trip. Carson Pass is a mountain pass on the crest of the central Sierra Nevada, in the Eldorado National Forest and Alpine County, eastern California. This area…
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Weber Point, Sleeve 3, 1971-72
These negatives are similar to the ones we discussed yesterday. Enlarged 120 roll film to a 4.5 x 7″ format. All these images are photographed at or around Weber Point. The finished or almost finished I-5 is visible in the background in few of the shots. The first 4 images were photographed in short succession…
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