Finding Joel Pahl Dardis

Tag: Photography

  • Beach, Box 46, August 1946

    Beach, Box 46, August 1946

    Stepping some two years back, this box has “August 1946” pencilled on it. We’ve seen few beach images in 1946 already, and these negatives seem to be part of the same time period. These images are of the “snapshot” variety, the photography documenting the who, what, where, why of things. The first image though could…

  • The rest of Box 45, 1948

    The rest of Box 45, 1948

    There are 9 negatives left in box 45. The majority is photographed at College of the Pacific, sometime during Spring 1948. The first negatives I came across are playing in an elementary school, we can’t be sure what the occasion is, possibly a show-and-tell. The teacher might be a friend of Joel, or Joel misplaced…

  • Sports, Box 45, 1948

    Sports, Box 45, 1948

    This is one of the heavy negative boxes. Twenty nine negatives crammed in the package. The main subject is a variety of sports at College of Pacific in 1948. I was able to verify that some of these images were represented in a cropped form in Naranjado 1948. It is always good to find confirmation.…

  • The rest of Box 44, April 1948

    The rest of Box 44, April 1948

    There were 8 more negatives in box 44 we didn’t check out in previous blog post. These represent a variety of subjects with little background available. First two images are from a family event with siblings Harry, Clara, Amy Pahl and Edra Portsmouth, Harry’s spouse, from left to right below. I found out recently, through…

  • More COP Parties, Box 44, 1948

    More COP Parties, Box 44, 1948

    The pencil marks on this box simply says “April Dance”. There’s total of 24 negatives, and there are multiple subjects. Although Joel Dardis is credited in the 1948 Naranjada yearbook, none of the images in this, and following, blog posts, are published in the “Big Days Section”. From what I can gather, the Rhizomia “and…

  • SS President Cleveland, Box 43, April 5, 1948

    SS President Cleveland, Box 43, April 5, 1948

    This box of negatives mainly contains negatives taken during an onboard tour of the SS President Cleveland. There is no further information available on the box. President Cleveland was originally ordered by the Maritime Commission during World War II, as a transport ship, and intended to serve in the US Navy with the name USS Admiral D. W. Taylor  The ship was laid…

  • Mardi Gras, Box 42, 1948

    Mardi Gras, Box 42, 1948

    Although there’s a date of April 15, 1948 pencilled on the box, we can’t be sure that this is the exact date of Mardi Gras in this case for 1948, as this event typically happens sometime in May. Nevertheless, some of the images matchup subject wise with the Mardi Gras images in Naranjado 1948 and…

  • Mary Ann, Box 41, April 1948

    Mary Ann, Box 41, April 1948

    This blogpost will look at the second series of negatives in this portfolio shoot with Mary Ann Ferguson, spread over April 9 and 10, 1948. One more tidbit about Mary Ann Ferguson, she was part of the Mardi Gras Queen’s Court for Alpha Theta Tau. The next images are all taken poolside at COP. Joel…

  • Ferguson, Box 41, April 1948

    Ferguson, Box 41, April 1948

    Joel pencilled “Fersgsen (sic)” and “April 9-10, 1948” with “24 shot” on the Super Panchro Press Kodak Sheet FIlm box A total of 24 negatives, all about the same subject. A scan of Naranjado 1948 confirmed that the young lady was Mary Ann Ferguson, a freshman in 1948. A check through Pacific Weekly shows she…

  • Enigma, Box 40, April 1948

    Enigma, Box 40, April 1948

    This box of negatives is a bit of an oddball. There’s a Feb 26, 1948 date pencilled in the corner of the lid. And (sic) “baptislau” … Joel’s scribbles leave a lot to be desired at times. Baptismal. There are indeed negatives in the box of a baby getting all dressed up for a baptismal,…