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

No WEB DESIGNERS, this is not a business website. I don't need help making the site customer friendly and all that jive. This site is the avocation of a senior citizen reliving his childhood. STOP with all the emails.

This Site is for sharing old school photographs from your school days in the 1950's and 1960's in Southeast Washington DC, where Anacostia High was the only high school around. There are links provided below to about 24 photo albums and shortcut to all those photo albums by way of links, or what I call Tabs, shown on the top page banner above, which take you to the same of those photo albums as found below, but the Tabs have links to other interests, such as school newspapers. The site can be viewed superbly well on your smartphone also.

The school photos displayed below in a rotating gallery of pictures are only teasers 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.

Totem Pole Yearbooks: ********************************************************
Anacostia Yearbooks
Yearbook Looking For A New Home: 1957
Contact me (Roger Bell) at kidagain@comcast.net if you want the yearbook and 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.

It's a shame to still not be able to display these Anacostia High School 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. There is no other avenue to display these missing pictures then this website.

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.

Recent website additions are:

I have added the 1955 Ketcham Elementary School 6th grade class of Mrs Gibson's to my Ketcham photo album thanks to Ed Cowan, currently is a Georgia resident, but was a kid was raised in Washington DC's Anacostia neighborhood and attended Ketcham Elementary School graduating in 1955 in Mrs Schwoerer's class. I have updated Mrs Schwoerer's 6th grade class picture showing Ed Cowan's location.
I have added the 1953 Kramer Junior High School January Class picture to my SCHOOL PHOTOS albums found along the top of this page. Thank you goes to Ms. Terry Spence, daughter of Marie Britton, for sending me the picture following her mother's death. With the help of Ms. Spence, Patrick Clarke, Bob Dornes, Joan Bell and Janice Craig I was able to add the names shown in the picture.
I have added the Commencement Program for the January 1953 class of Kramer Junior High School. Find the link to all Commencement Programs at the very bottom on this page. Remember to click a second time inside the pic for it to enlarge. Thanks to Terry Spence, daughter of Marie Britton, for sending me the Program and the Kramer class picture following her mother's death. Knowing the names of those who stood for the class picture should help to identify who is in the class picture which Terry Spence also provided.
Added a new video slideshow of pictures taken at the 1960 Anacostia High School 55th Reunion to my HIGH SCHOOL REUNION album tab seen at the top of this page. Select the tab, then select 1960 Anacostia and then select the 55 year Reunion.
1959 Anacostia Pow Wow newspapers Issues #2 through #9 have been added to my School Newspaper tab thanks to Bobby Distin (AHS 1959). In doing so I have relocated the School Newspaper tab to the top of this page for easy access. Click on the tab to open a dropdown menu and navigate to the Pow Wow of your choice. I have used the Flirkr photo storage website to improve the display of the newspapers pages which when you to click twice within the picture, it will enlarge, enhancing readability. Each Pow Wow page is 11"x17".
An Anne Beers Elementary School picture sent me by Charlie Riecks (AHS 1961) of his 4th or 5th grade in 1952 or 1953 showing a class project learning TV broadcasting productions wherein on the wall appears a Louie Allen weather forecast drawing for March 16th drawn by Louie Allen in the fashion he was famous for drawing.
One of the very few Junior High School diplomas ever given to an Anacostia Junior-Senior High student has been added to my SCHOOL PHOTOS tab and found within my More Stuff photos. Bear witness to its words, structure and classical style, the signatures, date and the honoree. Go to the SCHOOL PHOTOS tab seen at the top of this page and select More Stuff from the drop down menu. There is also a link provided near the bottom of the page. Always remember to click on/in the picture a second and third time for the picture to enlarge.
The 1955 Anacostia High Commencement Program has been added to my Commencement Programs Album the link to which is found at the very bottom of my web page. Again, thanks go to Don Stanford (AHS '55) for not holding onto his Anacostia memories any longer and sending them all to me to share.
A 1958 Anacostia High School picture of DIGS sorority has been added to my SCHOOL PHOTOS tab for Anacostia High thanks to Don Stanford (AHS '55). Always remember to click on/in the picture once or twice for the picture to enlarge for best viewing. For Your Information : All the links to photos found further down this page connect to the same photos found on the tabs at the top of the web page.

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.