Anacostia, Hart, Kramer, Sousa and More...

Site for sharing old school photographs from your school days in the 1950's and 1960's in Southeast Washington DC. There are links below to about 24 photo albums. There are links that I call Tabs above to some of those photo albums but also other interests. The site can be viewed superbly well on your smartphone also.

The school photos displayed below in a rotating gallery of pictures (call them teasers) are meant to show only the sample of all the pictures that are stored elsewhere (call it in the "cloud") which you advance to by clicking on an icon.

Clicking on the "click here" icons will advance you to the "cloud" where you can view all pictures up close and personal. Clicking a second time on any picture in the "cloud" will enlarge the picture. Below each picture there is a comment box where you can communicate a correction or update you find in the picture. I have set my "Flickr" preferences to receive notification of a comment. I encourage you to use this commenting feature to help me add more names into all the pictures.

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Anacostia Yearbooks
Yearbooks Looking For A New Home:
1950, 1952, 1955, 1958 and 1959
Contact me (Roger Bell) at kidagain@comcast.net with which one of the yearbooks you want,...but remember to provide me a mailing address of where to mail it.

I will find it a brand new home for any Anacostia High School yearbook needing one. Tell me.

Anacostia Class Pictures - I have many Anacostia High School class pictures from 1940 through 1963 but I do not have class pictures for the following years: 1941,1942, 1943,1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, and later. If you have one or know of someone who has one from these years to share on my website, please mail it to me to share with others, it will be return mailed to you.

Tightly rolled up or torn class pictures are easily fixed and can be made beautiful again.

Recent website additions are:

I have added a 1952 Ketcham Elementary School picture of what I believe is the 4th grade class of Betsy Hall Prothero taken on the steps of the Ketcham school playground. Thanks to Betsy for sending me the picture, though she has not idea of how it got into her possession as her mother was not a camera aficionado to have taken the picture. Betsy was a 1954 Ketcham graduate along with me so I am familiar with almost all the kids in this picture. Remember to click a second time on the picture for it to enlarge for best viewing.
I have added a 1962 Hart Junior High School photograph of 9th grade class 309 thanks to the Facebook social media group "You Might Be A Native Washingtonian IF..." (DC Metro Natives included) and the posting of this picture which currently shows the name of only one Anacostia High School graduate. Remember to click a second time on the picture for it to enlarge for best viewing.
I have added a 1966 Anacostia High School 20 year Reunion picture to my HIGH SCHOOL REUNION album with many thank you's to Robert Evans (AHS 1966). Remember to click a second time on the picture for it to enlarge for best viewing. I have updated the picture many times since it as first added, but now the number of new names in the picture is slowing down. If you have a name to give me for someone still unnamed, send it to me at kidagain@comcast.net.
I have added a 1953 Ketcham Elementary School 6th grade class picture to my Ketcham photo album thanks to Puggie Pessagno Jones (AHS 1960) and Richard Cantilena. Remember to click a second time on the picture for it to enlarge for best viewing. The Ketcham Photo Album can be found by clicking on SCHOOL PHOTOS in the black banner at the top of this page and selecting Ketcham Elem from the drop down menu. My 6th grade class the following school year was with the same teacher but I have not yet found my class picture. Boohoo!
I have added many more names to the 1955 Kramer Junior High School class picture thanks to Rita Cunningham. Mostly girl names but there was one new boys name identified, a Bill Palmer, found through my Facebook resource.
I have added a 9th grade picture of Miss Beery's school class from when Anacostia was still a junior high school in 1939. These kids should have graduated Anacostia High School in 1943. Photographs from this far in the past have no names of who's in them because there is no one to ask. Remember to click a second time on the picture for it to enlarge for best viewing.
I have added two photography's sent to me thanks to Debby Mullins showing her mother's 1955 Congress Hts Elementary School 2nd grade class where she taught school until 1980. Her mother was a 1950 Anacostia High graduate by the name of Betty Boblits. No names other then Mrs. Mullins have been added into the pictures. Students seen these pictures would have graduated Congress Hts Elementary in 1959 and Hart Junior High in 1962 and Ballou or Anacostia High in 1965. Remember to click a second time on the picture for it to enlarge for best viewing.
- If you know someone who did attend Congress Heights Elementary School and who also graduated from either of these other schools in the given years, surprise them with possibly finding themselves in their 2nd grade school class picture or recognizing someone they know. Not likely such old people would remember their teacher's name. If you succeed, please tell me.
I've added a Kramer Junior High School Report Card into my More Stuff... photo album thanks to Nancy Yee. It's totally unlike any report card I ever received because her grades were so much better then mine ever were, but that's another matter. Click on the SCHOOL PHOTOS tab at the top of this page, then select the MORE STUFF... album from the drop down menu and look for the report card.

Before Seattle had their Starbucks,
Washington DC had their Wilkins Coffee.
Talk about some old commercials,....Wilkins had them also. They are so politically incorrect in today's society but back in the 60's they were what helped Jim Henson's Muppet's and Kermit become popular. Before Kermit was green.