Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/20

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Old Main Dorm, 1952
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:43:13 -0600
 
Old Main Dormitory at Mississippi State University consisted of four sides 
surrounding a quadrangle, and was considered to be the largest dorm under 
one roof in the USA.  It was completely destroyed by fire in January 1959.  
The stories told by students who lived there will be told over and over.  
One of my classmates, an accomplished photographer for the college 
newspaper, was forced to move off-campus our final year because, after 
students got into a fire-hose battle on an upper floor, he was caught 
drilling a hole in the wooden floor of his room, to let the water out. ;~)

This view shows the original South face of Old Main, in 1952.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Old+Main+Dormitory+MSU+1952+edit.jpg.html

Leica IIIa with Coated Elmar 50/3.5

Comments and critiques welcomed.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA