No doubting the superiority of an 8x10 glass plate negative. You are literally drawn into the image, rather than, with digital, simply looking at a high resolution image.

Having just seen "Edifice Complex" I think Dave is intentionally giving us a comparison of two neoclassic county courthouses, both built in prosperous upper Midwest cities at the turn of the last century.

As with art -- it's all about knowing how to put it together.

I see 14 people, five of whom, possibly six, could be said to be slouching, and five who are stout or stoutish.

That lawn looks like it could be part of a golf course. Maintaining a lawn like that in the era before power trimmers and motorized mowers must have been highly labor intensive.