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Cars in front of the Chemistry Building

Over the last several days I’ve been working on putting together a short presentation for FE&P next week, sort of looking at the general physical history of the campus. This afternoon I was trying to find construction photos of the Chemistry Building, but they are few and far between. What I did find were several surprising interior shots that I’ll probably post sometime next week and a half dozen pictures taken over many decades of the building with cars parked in front of it. I know that this picture here was taken in 1926, but I have two others that are labeled “n.d.”–no date. Given the success of my readers at dating that last aerial photo, I’ll throw these out for comment. I don’t know much about cars, but that seems to be the only way to date these. Perhaps I should start offering prizes for correct answers.

My WAG for this one: late 1940s.

I don’t know, maybe 1970?

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