Tag: Circus

  • More Circus, Ansco Color Slide, 1947

    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…

  • Drewry Photocolor Slides, 1947

    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.…

  • Car Race, Box 60, Summer 1948

    Car Race, Box 60, Summer 1948

    This box has as usual multiple subjects spread over 22 negatives. The box states June-July 1948, but with some circus images mixed in between, this should be May-July 1948. I’m not sure where the car race is held. Lodi or Stockton I would say. And Joel is again struggling with light leaks in this film…

  • Stragglers, Box 35, 1946-48

    Stragglers, Box 35, 1946-48

    A box of 16 negatives and only a single date on the box, 1946. Stragglers of sorts, as on first sight, they don’t belong together. A closer look though, reveals that these images relate well to previous blog posts. In short, they are all misplaced stragglers of sorts. The first image I scanned stood out…

  • More color, June 14, 1946

    More color, June 14, 1946

    Yesterday was actually our 50th blog post in this discovery of Joel Pahl Dardis photographic work. We’ve seen over this time some 750 images so far. Below are a few more Kodachrome images from the June 14, 1946 box. These are all Carnival or Circus related. We’ve seen some isolated slides before on this subject…