Historians tend to explain the past in terms of the tensions between continuity and change, between what endures over time and what disappears. At first blush these seem like two very different things, but the longer I think about it the more I wonder.
This is one of Joseph Davies’s photographs, taken during the construction of the Bonner Lab in 1952:
I don’t know who took this one, but it shows construction of Duncan Hall in 1995 on precisely the same spot:
Bonus: Lovett Hall tiles.
