Finding Joel Pahl Dardis

Tag: B&W

  • Box Car City, Box 25, 1946

    Box Car City, Box 25, 1946

    I took me some research to figure out what the contents were of this box. The lid had following notations; Houses, Terminous, Woodbridge, Stockton 1946. Checking the history of Terminous online, I found a reference to “Box Car City” and then the light bulb went on. All these shacks were clearly built on box car…

  • San Francisco, Dec 1947

    San Francisco, Dec 1947

    These images were found in box 24 with the Jack Pahl Dec 25, 1947 images. We can’t be sure that these images are from that time period but it would make sense for Joel to pass by one of his favorite subjects when he was in the Oakland/Berkeley area to visit family. Most of the…

  • Jack Pahl, Box 24, 1947

    Jack Pahl, Box 24, 1947

    Few different subjects in this box where the majority is photographed on Agfa Super Plenachrome Press stock. The pencil marks read “Jack Pahl Family, Dec 25, 1947” and below that “Torlan, Dec 26, 1947” (Note: Torlan could also be Toulau, Toilan … Joel’s spelling is often erratic.) We do find multiple subjects in this box…

  • Baby Alert, Box 23, 1947

    Baby Alert, Box 23, 1947

    This box is missing its cover lid. On the bottom it reads in pencil “Werne Pahl Baby” “Feb 3, 1947” and “March 16, 1948”. Two events, two subjects as we will see. There are a total of 21 negatives in this box. I won’t show then all this time as quite a few of them…

  • More Fire, Box 22, July 1947

    More Fire, Box 22, July 1947

    About 10 images from this box were discussed already in the Poultry Fire blog post. To my surprise, there were more images of another fire I can’t place. It’s a lot smaller, near Pacific Union Railroad and it looks like it may have been a small industrial installation or so. Joel is still some distance…

  • Various, Box 21, 1947

    Various, Box 21, 1947

    I found a few unexpected slides in box 21, the box with the first set of 6 Poultry Fire negatives. I assume till further discovery that these slides are equally from 1947. Harry Lawrence Pahl is Joel’s uncle from his mother’s side and his “Pahl Harry & Co” business is located before 1952 at 427…

  • Poultry Fire, July 24, 1947

    Poultry Fire, July 24, 1947

    The images of this blog post were scattered over two negative boxes that were simply labeled “Poultry Fire, Jul 1947”, while the second box reads “Poultry Fire, July 24, 1947.” The 24 was added at a later time. There are 8 or 9 images of this fire in the Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the…

  • Emil F. Pahl, Box 20, 1946

    Emil F. Pahl, Box 20, 1946

    There are a few scribbles on this box. First there’s Emil Pahl and child, but we’ll find out about more family members utilizing genealogical research in the process. There’s equally Christmas 1946. There’s sufficient coherence in the images to suggest that the majority of these were taken during a Christmas visit. Emil Pahl was a…

  • Boats etc., Box 19, 1946-47

    Boats etc., Box 19, 1946-47

    There are two penciled in dates on this box, 1946 and 1947. Makes it a bit uncertain when this event was exactly photographed. All the images are recognizable as a regatta style event, photographed in the Stockton Harbor and Lake McLeod. A total of 20 negatives and we’ll be looking at quite a few of…

  • Three Girls, Box 18, 1946

    Three Girls, Box 18, 1946

    That’s what’s written on the cover of press negative box 18. It also says June-July 1946. I believe this was somewhere at COP, and it is also possible more than one photographer was involved that day. It’s all an exercise in grouping and angles. And fighting the California sun. Squinted eyes and stressed faces, not…