Sepia Saturday 284: Typewriters, Writing, Words

Sepia Saturday 284: Typewriters, Writing, Words

Scan1307

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.

2015.05W-104

4 Comments

  1. La Nightingail

    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! 🙂

  2. Pingback: Sepia Saturday 285: Postcards, Hotels, Buildings | Sheetar

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.