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re: Anyone know what building this is?
Posted on 10/5/16 at 2:43 pm to member12
Posted on 10/5/16 at 2:43 pm to member12
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If there were a car or something in the photo, we might be able to narrow it down to they year. I know the OP didn't ask for the date but the OT is a powerful enough resource to provide a reasonable estimate.
Yes, it would be very nice if this slide could be dated. But I just have to assume this is the 2nd edition of the building, somewhere around 1930ish or so.
What would also be really interesting, would be to find out if this is an original that one of the parents of the people that found these film negatives took themselves. (Well to do folks, so that wouldn't surprise me). (vs some films that they would have purchased)
This post was edited on 10/5/16 at 2:44 pm
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Posted on 10/5/16 at 2:46 pm to Kingpenm3
Just for kicks, these are the other two film negatives that I got out of the box (of hundreds).
Posted on 10/5/16 at 2:48 pm to Kingpenm3
To further prove that the pic in the OP is the second one:
Power poles in OP.
Power poles in 1903 postcard.
Epic pic
Power poles in OP.
Power poles in 1903 postcard.
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Epic pic
This post was edited on 10/5/16 at 2:49 pm
Posted on 10/5/16 at 2:49 pm to member12
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Not sure if the photo in the OP is the rebuilt version or the original.
Some pictures/postcards show a smelter stack behind the building (looks to not be connected) and some don't... so that might give a clue.
Of course on a postcard the artist might leave it out.
Posted on 10/5/16 at 2:50 pm to WestSideTiger
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Oxford MS courthouse? Not SWLA but in Lafayette County.
Ain't NOTHING in Lafayette County THAT pretty.
Posted on 10/5/16 at 2:54 pm to member12
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Based on a quick internet search, looks like it was rebuilt after the fire and then torn down in 1950 to make room for a parking lot....which is a frustrating end for a pretty building like that.
They tore this hotel down in Bogalusa to put in a Winn-Dixie....
Posted on 10/5/16 at 2:58 pm to rmnldr
And finally, I found the original Windsor:
OP's is the rebuilt one.
OP's is the rebuilt one.
Posted on 10/5/16 at 3:14 pm to rmnldr
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Epic pic
For sure. And notice the job that my scanner is doing, these are film negatives, about 3"x 4" that have been sitting for decades.
Posted on 10/5/16 at 4:11 pm to Kingpenm3
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I know the OP didn't ask for the date but the OT is a powerful enough resource to provide a reasonable estimate.
Yes, it would be very nice if this slide could be dated. But I just have to assume this is the 2nd edition of the building, somewhere around 1930ish or so.
Bear with me for a second on this theory of estimation.
The following picture, dated circa 1910 shows the monument from the other side. So the foreground in the new pic is the background in the OP and vice versa. Now take into account that the picture in the OP is a slide and is therefore likely in reverse image as noted by the location of the fountain in the OP being on the left when most postcards show the fountain on the right...I flipped the OP picture on my phone and then started looking at things.
Original High Def Version of New Picture
The wooden telephone pole in the OP is the same pole that appears in the new picture towards the center of the screen. Now look at the shrubbery in the pictures. The OP shows a large tree in the foreground, whereas the new picture shows that same tree to the right of the monument. From the limited image, I would say that the tree in the OP appears to be much fuller (during the winter), and taller than the one in the new picture. This leads me to believe that the new picture (circa 1910) was taken before the OP.
This tree appears to be a Chinese evergreen elm or something similar...which can grow up to 5' per year...My estimation is the tree in the new picture is 18-20 ft tall and the tree in the OP is 36-40 ft tall, meaning that the OP would be about 3-5 years after the new picture placing it circe 1915...
Of course I am basing all this on loose approximations and a limited knowledge of trees, so take it with a grain of salt!
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