Historical photos of Georgia schools 1845-1973

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Flashback photos: Georgia schools, part 2, 1845-1973

A nostalgic look back at Georgia schools and students, including high school and collegiate athletes.

DeKalb College students studying the school's new computer in October 1965. From the original caption: "The 2,400-foot reel of tape can transmit to or receive from the computer's memory 20,000 characters of information every second."

In a sign of the times, which was sometime in the 1940s, the original caption reads: "Good health, typified by Bill Johnson, BHS grid star, is high on the ideal husband list of Mackie Stacks, Elizabeth White, Evelyn Harwell." BHS is Boys High School and the other three were students at Girls High School.

Students walking the halls at Brown High School in 1961.

Fran Tarkenton as an Athens High School quarterback in 1957.

Atlanta Speech School on Peachtree Street in September 1962. LBGPNS9-189a, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976. Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

Avondale School in April 1954. LBGPF3-052d, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976. Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

Avondale School in 1954. LBGPF3-052d, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976. Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

Bass High School versus O'Keefe High School in a baseball game at Candler Park in May 1949. N02-53_01, Tracy O'Neal Photographic Collection, 1923-1975, Photographic Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

Booker T. Washington High School students admire the statue of their school's namesake, 1953

Boys High Class of 1918 Reunion in June 1973. N56-090_a, Tracy O'Neal Photographic Collection, 1923-1975, Photographic Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

Cheerleaders practicing while Grady Stadium is renovated, July 1948. The original caption identifies them as Mary Parker, 714 Lillian Ave. S.W. (left) and Hazel Bramblett, 1240 Floyd St.

Cleveland Avenue Elementary School, Atlanta, August 1954. N04-079_01, Tracy O'Neal Photographic Collection, 1923-1975, Photographic Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

Children travelling with the circus get daily English lessons from a clown school teacher, 1940s. From the original caption: "These foreign-born children, sons or brothers of performers, who are brushing up on their English with Clown Harry Dann, who is the circus school-teacher, are (from left) Nicko Joannides, 14 of Greece; Roland Natal, 4, France; George Boginos, 13, Italy; Ralph Thomen, 13, Switzerland, and Eugenio Boginos, 14, Italy."

South Cobb High School in August 1954. on LBGPOA1-018b, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976. Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

South Cobb High School in August 1954. LBGPOA1-018d, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976. Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

Virginia Avenue Grammar School in 1908. Students and faculty pose outside of College Park's first public school building.

Georgia State College computer demonstration, August 21, 1966.

Students pause between classes on the campus plaza at DeKalb College, 1971.

Decatur High School Basketball Team sometime in the 1940s

DeKalb College students socializing in the school's cafeteria, 1965

The DeKalb College sign as seen from Indian Creek Drive on Sept. 7, 1966.

Decatur High School on July 9, 1970

Faculty and students dine at the Georgia State's cafeteria, 1964.

East Lake School in February 1950. LBGPF3-061d, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976. Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

East Lake School in February 1950. LBGPF3-061b, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976. Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

Fairhaven School at 833 Springdale Road NE in February 1963. N23-005_a, Tracy O'Neal Photographic Collection, 1923-1975, Photographic Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

Football team from Georgia's Eleventh District Agricultural School (Douglas, Georgia), 1918.

Future Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Fran Tarkenton as an Athens High School quarterback in 1957

Future Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Fran Tarkenton as an Athens High School basketball player in 1956.

Drawing of a combination church and schoolhouse that was built at the corenr of Peachtree and Pryor in 1845.

Airborne Georgia Tech male cheerleader caught midflip in 1963.

Girls High School, Atlanta, Georgia, circa 1925.

High school students getting off the trolley at the new Girls High School, Atlanta, Georgia, circa 1925.

Girls basketball team, Gordon Military Institute, Barnesville, Georgia, 1924.

Henry Grady High School in 1961.

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DeKalb College students studying the school's new computer in October 1965. From the original caption: "The 2,400-foot reel of tape can transmit to or receive from the computer's memory 20,000 characters of information every second."

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