Barbara,

I don't even know how to use e-bay! Your knowledge of computers and the internet always amazes me! Neat post and thanks for selling Meadowview!!!

Hi Jennifer.  Glad you made it home.  I loved selling the house and I see one is starting on Orleans!  ebay is fun.  You must learn something about it. 

Barb,

My Mom would have us get a switch of the tree also.  At Christmas we ask what we were getting and she said a sack of swithches and a bag of coal.  So we wrapped some swithes up and put them under the tee for her.  BIG MISTAKE!  She  used all of them on us, as she needed them.

Debbie

Debbie, it was, I guess fashionable to let the kid get the switch.  Must be equivalent to making the kid do "time out" now.  I think the switching was more effective!!

I love those old photos from 100 years ago, I have seen plenty of the town I live in. I especially love the ones where the buildings are still standing today, over time some of them haven't changed much at all.

Barbara, I think you can buy and find anything on eBay. I, too like these old photos.

Alan, the buildings are wonderful.  Most have so many grown trees that the photos are not good though. 

Gary, thanks for viewing my old photos.  I have two more to put up showing the old streets.  I'll do one a day.

Barbara,

Harding University has sure changed!  It now covers alot of Searcy!  Good post!

Mary, thanks for stopping by.  That building is almost as big as your personal house!!

Barbara, thanks very much for sharing this image. I find old photos enjoyable, and I've rarely seen one that features architecture (most are portraiture).

It's interesting to note the almost total lack of convergance in the image (just a bit on the right side of the image).

Those old cameras tended to use bellow style lens attachments, sort of the precursor to a tilt shift commonly used by arch. photographers. This allows the camera to stay parallel to the film plane. You can also see there's some loss of sharpness along both edges...

the cameras back then hard large film planes and as a result DOF was often a problem even when shot at very small apertures.

I'm willing to bet it was very bright out when they took that shot, in order to expose it quickly enough to freeze the dog.

Cool! :)

-B 

Bryce,  WOW!  You know photography, sounds like!  I just like old pictures of old buildings.  I plan to put up some more in the next few days so keep my blog available.  Thanks for sharing your knowledge about how it was done.