Finding Joel Pahl Dardis

Tag: Negatives

  • 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…

  • Family, Pool, Box 17, 1946

    Family, Pool, Box 17, 1946

    Box 17 contains 12 negatives. There are few names on the cover of this box, there’s just no certain way to attach a name to a face as that relationship is lost to non-family members. Yes, Joel is photographing a few Pahl family members. Some of the faces we’ve seen before on his 22nd and…

  • More etc., box 16, 1946

    More etc., box 16, 1946

    Second significant subject in box 16 was more track and field. A different day than the pole vaults we covered few blog posts past, witness the clouds in the sky. And then there are few more portrait shots from the swimming pool area and we’ll keep the outlier for last. The pole vault and the…

  • Portraits, Box 16, 1946

    Portraits, Box 16, 1946

    The vast majority of the negatives in box 16 are portraits and I believe this the result of a class assignment. There are portraits indoors and outdoors, some of the outdoors portraits utilize a reflector in an attempt to enhance facial lighting. There are a total of four young ladies in the picture, I don’t…

  • Track, etc., Box 15, 1946

    Track, etc., Box 15, 1946

    Few images from a track event in 1946. From a photographer’s perspective, Joel is learning how to freeze images in motion. This would be perfectly in line with a class objective, and it is a necessary skill for a photographer to grasp all the concepts required to freeze motion. What is not clear to me…