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 provided below to about 24 photo albums. There are also links which I call Tabs, shown on the banner above, 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 (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:
1955 and 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.

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:

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.
A 1955 Anacostia High School 40 year Reunion group picture has been added to my HIGH SCHOOL REUNIONS tab thanks to Don Stanford (AHS '55). Everyone is identified. Select the HIGH SCHOOL REUNIONS tab at the top of the web page and select the 1955 class 40 year Reunion from the drop down menu.
I have added a Washington Post news article from 1950 to my Stanton Elementary School album that explains Stanton Elementary School's need for a new school with picture of the old Stanton Elementary School buildings that were replaced. Opening day of the new Stanton School, the school I remember at Naylor Road and Alabama Ave, was Sep 12, 1950. Go to my SCHOOL PHOTOS tab at the top of the page and select Stanton Elementary from the drop down menu.
A 1949 Stanton Elementary School class picture has been added to my SCHbOOL PHOTOS album thanks to Don Stanford (AHS 1955) who attended the original Stanton Elementary School before the school was replaced with a new school at Alabama Ave and Naylor Road in Southeast DC. Always remember to click on/in the picture again for the picture to enlarge.
A 1951 Kramer Junior High School class picture has been added to my SCHOOL PHOTOS album thanks to Robert Pugh (AHS 1954) for having sent me the photo. Robert Pugh and Pat Clarke were immensely helpful with identifying most all the kids you see identified in the photo. Click on the SCHOOL PHOTOS tab seen at the top of this page and select Kramer from the drop down menu or you can click on the link to the Kramer Photo album found below. Always remember to click on/in the picture again for the picture to enlarge.
"THE MARRIED LIST" has been updated with two more couples who have been married to each other since their Anacostia High School days, based on information learned from my having attended the Multi year Reunion on Ocean City last October.
The 1950 Anacostia High School class held their 50 year Reunion in September 2000. An "After the Reunion" letter summarizing the Reunion is added to my HIGH SCHOOL REUNIONS tab, a the top of this page. I have no pictures from this Reunion. I do have a directory of names and addresses of the 1950 Anacostia class as was known in 2000, which I have added at the end of the letter. I want to thank Bill Neal (AHS 1950) of Indiana, PA for sending me all these memories to be shared.
The 1964 Anacostia High School class held their 55 year Reunion on Oct 5th in Annapolis MD. A few group and individual pictures from the Reunion have been added to the HIGH SCHOOL REUNIONS tab. Click on the tab and select from the drop down menu or click on the appropriate link found given below. More will be added in time.

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.