Days Gone By

Leon H. Abdalian, English High School, Boston, Massachusetts, October 1920.

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Popular 17 year old senior Earl Reum writing poetry in a bus, Denver, Colorado, USA, 1948.

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Teenage boys sporting their latest shoe fad of wearing G.I. shoes (Army surplus they bought or inherited) which they call “My old lady’s Army Shoes” & wear every Tuesday at school, Des Moines, Iowa, USA, December 1948.

Sam Hood, Pupils doing eurythmics, Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Croydon, New South Wales, Australia, ca. 1930.

Source: State Library of New South Wales

Students in class at University High School, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1930s.

Source: University High School, Melbourne Archives

Yale Joel, Final embrace between Marcia Kraft and John Powers bringing play to handsome climax, Winchester, Massachusetts, February 1950.

Nina Leen, Teenagers spending allowance on bowling, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, April 1957.

Esther Bubley, A student at Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington, DC, October 1943.

Source: Library of Congress

Yale Joel, High school students staggering up a snowy sidewalk, carrying props for a school play, Winchester, Massachusetts, February 1950.