Finding Joel Pahl Dardis

Tag: Press format

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • June 6, 1948, Box 14

    June 6, 1948, Box 14

    Jumping ahead a few years, and breaking the chronology, this box is part of the expired negatives that Joel used up prior to buying new stock after his return from WWII service. June 6, 1948 is Joel’s 27th birthday and it appears that quite a few of the people present on June 6, 1943, are…

  • Press Negatives, Box 12, 1946

    Press Negatives, Box 12, 1946

    Joel left quite a few press negative boxes behind with 1942 and 1943 “process by” dates, but pencil dates between 1946 and 1948. Looks like Joel had quite some boxes in stock prior to his WWII service, and back in Stockton at the Stockton Junior College, he’s using this stock up first. It shouldn’t come…

  • Press Format Negatives, 1942

    Press Format Negatives, 1942

    The Press format is a 3 1/4″ x 4 1.4″ format, sometimes referred to as “3×4”. This format is a size smaller than 4″ x 5″, the latter being considered the entry size to “large format film”. It’s called “Press” format as it was a very popular format for bread and butter press photographers at…