1950s High School Life Archive Prom Yearbook Diploma Bethesda Chevy Chase MD DC For Sale

Remarkable original archive documenting the high school years of Ann Carter “Susie” Pritchard, a 1957 graduate of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, Maryland.

This is not an assembled collection. These materials were preserved together from Pritchard\'s school years and include her yearbook, original diploma, graduation and social-event materials, school publications, club and activity memorabilia, science fair materials, and personal documents, along with reunion materials that follow the B-CC Class of 1957 for decades after graduation.

Taken together, the archive offers an unusually extensive snapshot of teenage and high-school life in the Washington, D.C./Bethesda area during the mid-1950s.

Highlights include:

• 1957 Pine Tree Bethesda-Chevy Chase Senior High School yearbook, including Pritchard\'s senior portrait
• Original 1957 Maryland high school diploma for Ann Carter Pritchard in presentation folder
• Large original felt BCC \'57 school patch, approximately 8\" x 6\"
• Original graduation tassel
• CHIPS creative arts/literary magazines: 1956 Vol. 19 and 1957 Vol. 20
• Three copies of the June 14, 1957 Graduation Exercises program, including one accompanied by a contemporary newspaper clipping reporting the awarding of 620 diplomas
• Three copies of The Service for the Graduates, June 9, 1957
• 1957 Senior Banquet program
• 1957 Senior Prom admission card personalized to Ann Pritchard
• Five-page Closing Days of School schedule
• June 4, 1957 stapled set of school instructions covering traffic regulations, Senior Banquet rules, graduate service instructions, and cap and gown instructions
• Junior Class History for the Class of 1957 and Sophomore Class History
• Materials from the 1956 Annual Washington Area Science Fair, including two exhibit registry cards, exhibitor identification, instructions, and Pritchard\'s Honorable Mention placard
• Bethesda-Chevy Chase A Cappella Choir material, including 1956 Christmas concert program and membership list
• Thespian Troupe 1221 material, including a 1956 program for Molière\'s The Imaginary Invalid with ticket remnant and material relating to the 1957 production of Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
• American Junior Red Cross card, Bethesda-Chevy Chase YMCA membership card, GED test record, and other personal school-era documents
• Invitations and memorabilia for the Mistletoe Ball, Club Baron, Annapolis Cotillion, open house, cookout, and other school/social activities
• School song lyrics and additional B-CC paper ephemera
• 10th reunion booklet (1967), approximately 80 pages
• 20th reunion booklet (1977), approximately 75 pages
• 30th reunion material (1987), including approximately 87-page reunion booklet/directory, correspondence to Ann Pritchard Pace, and Montgomery Journal coverage of the reunion
• 40th reunion material (1997), including approximately 50-page booklet and Class of 1957 alumni directory
• Additional later reunion correspondence and ephemera
• The Tattler special 50th anniversary issue, April 23, 1976
• The Tattler, October 10, 2014
• March 1996 Towne material featuring B-CC in the 1950s

Condition: This is an original archive of paper and textile material dating primarily from the 1950s, with later reunion material, and condition varies considerably from piece to piece. Please examine all photographs closely as they form an important part of the condition description.

Many items remain in very good condition for their age, including the diploma, while others show expected age and storage wear such as toning, staining, spotting, folds, creases, edge wear, small tears, old tape/tape residue, and other signs of handling and use. The felt BCC \'57 patch shows noticeable wear/loss, particularly along the upper portion.

One of the three Graduation Exercises programs is substantially more spotted/discolored than the other two and was stored with a newspaper clipping inside; the clipping has caused additional discoloration. Some of the 1956 science fair materials are also stained, worn, torn and/or show old tape.

Odor disclosure: A few of the paper items have a musty storage odor. The great majority of the archive was stored in a wooden trunk in a second-floor bedroom of the estate and does not have what we would characterize as an offensive or strong musty odor. Because sensitivity to old-paper/storage odors varies from person to person, buyers should nevertheless expect normal vintage-paper/storage odor within a large archive of this age.

All items shown are included. This archive is being kept together rather than separated so that the original association among Pritchard\'s school, graduation, extracurricular, social, and later reunion materials is preserved.

Please review all photographs carefully for contents and condition. This is a large vintage archive with condition varying by item and is sold as shown.

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