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I-5 construction, Sleeve 3, 1971
This sleeve contains enlarged negatives. The original negatives are 120 film format with a 2 1/4″ width. The length of the negatives was 3.5″. After enlarging, the size becomes 4.5″ x 7″. These negatives were most likely photographed with the Koni-Omega camera Joel acquired somewhere late 1959. Enlarging would have been done on his standard…
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UOP Water Tower, JFC, 1962-1963
We now call the “UOP Water Tower” simply Burns Tower. When Joel penned this on the sleeve in 1962, he may not have known about the Burns dedication. The dates from Joel on this sleeves are Nov 1962-June 1963, possibly the timespan of his 4×5″ construction negatives in this particular sleeve from the Jessica Fong’s…
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Construction, Box 99, July 1957
There were few more negatives left to check in box 99. The date for those is Friday, July 19, 1957. All of them are related to construction of what appears to be a commercial structure, possibly with a residential or office add-on within the same lot. There are no further references on the box, so…
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Kodak Ektachrome, Box 95, 1957
This yellow Kodak Ektachrome box has an expiration date of January 1948. Joel had developed this color film stock as B&W to experiment with the rendering of the tones and contrast. Joel always liked to experiment. We’ve discussed these negatives quite a while ago. What’s in the box ? Three subjects and some. There’s a…
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Construction, Box 94, May 1949
This box has two subjects, and we’ll check out the mostly road construction images in this blogpost. The date is May 1949. Construction with plenty of heavy machinery. Unknown location at this time, but in the late 1940’s, housing development at one side, and College of Pacific expansion at the other side, were in full…
Finding Joel Pahl Dardis 