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Portrait, Basketball, Box 104, 1960
There are still a few negatives left in the “High Time Fire” negative box. The basketball images are from a Pacific-Fresno State match or were these images from the HIgh Time movie ? Joel’s camera doesn’t move an inch, so it is mounted on a tripod and that is something we didn’t see yet from…
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Dr. Nelson Dogs, Box 84, 1949
In addition to the “Dr. Nelson Dogs”, there was a “3 Pahl” scribble. The 3 Pahl’s were easy to identify. Three portrait style images of Harry Pahl and his wife Edra. All joking aside, if Joel were around today, he would most likely make this a goth portrait of his uncle and aunt. Just missing…
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K.P.F. Electric, Box 76, Dec 1948
K.P.F. Electric was a San Francisco company, founded in 1904, and August Julius Pahl was the managing president. There’s no longer much to find about the company, and I was always wondering what type of electrical engineering they were involved in. This box of negatives gives the answer I was looking for. K.P.F. Electric was…
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Michael Pahl, Box 65, June 10, 1948
Baby Michael Lawrence Pahl was born Sept 8, 1947. If the date on the box is right, then he’s about 9 months old in most of these images. It’s quite possible a few earlier images are mixed in here, Joel photographed Michael quite a few times in 1948 as we’ve seen already. Before the barrage…
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Stanford, Box 58, 1948
Negative box 58 has a variety of subjects for a total of 26 images. Some on College of Pacific campus, most of them are other locations though. Joel must have visited Stanford University to photograph a sports event in late 1948. And he photographed the architecture as well, giving him more material for his portfolio,…
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Carmel, Box 57, 1948
This box of negatives has two Joel scribbles on them. One says “Carmel, August 1948”, the other one reads “Pahl Plumbing”. His uncle Harry Pahl and his cousin Werne Pahl, were the principles in Pahl Harry & Co Plumbing and heating. We know that Joel photographed in Carmel from 1941 on, based on Kodachromes we’ve…
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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…
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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…
Finding Joel Pahl Dardis 