Another Sepia Saturday gets written, or typed, into the books! It took me a few seconds to think of a photo that might have typewriters in it, and in case it wasn’t obvious at first, the photo above fits the bill. The photo is of a classroom, presumably at the Beccaria-Coalport-Irvona High School in 1951. On the desks? Typewriters in their dust covers! There are a series of photos presumably taken around the time my grandpa, Leon Kitko, graduated high school, and this fits the size/theme of the others. I can’t be 100% positive since there’s no date or label, but I’d call it 99.9% likely. Grandpa happened to save his high school yearbook, so I took a peek through to see if I could identify the student. He appears to be John Finch. The class was pretty small – they graduated only 50 in 1951 – so it’s pretty easy to pick out who’s who. I have no information about him and it’s too common of a name to sort out what’s he’s up to now. All I can find is a census record that has him living in Gulich, Clearfield County, PA in 1940 which fits with the John Finch who’s in this photo as far as location goes. Beyond that, I can’t find anything in newspaper searches or anything else. Perhaps though, one of his descendants may stumble upon this page and find the photo.
Well, you can an A+ Not only did you find a picture with typewriters – covered up or not – but also including a student which you then researched to identify. A good & thorough job to present a studied post! 🙂
WOOHOO! An A+ 🙂 I’m so glad we have the yearbook to go along with all those photos – it’s certainly helping sort out who’s who!
I enjoy the detective work like what you’ve demonstrated with this photo and story. It’s fun to be able to identify someone even if they’re not family or friend.
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