Jamaica Plain Historical Society Photo Gallery

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Shown here is the 1931 class of the Lowell School, a junior high school at the corner of Centre and Mozart Streets in Jamaica Plain. This photograph was provided by Frank V. DeMont whose father, Frank M. DeMont is shown in the first row, sixth from the left. Frank M. DeMont was born in 1916 in Windsor, Nova Scotia and is approximately 15 years-old in this photo. DeMont emigrated to Jamaica Plain in 1923 at the age of 7. The DeMont family lived at 33 Sunnyside Ave. He attended and graduated from the Mary Curly School on Centre Street, went to the Lowell School, and then graduated from high school while living on Sunnyside Ave. In 1940 DeMont, along with his family including aunts and uncles moved to a farm in Hanson. A 11MB .tif file of this photograph is available for download. Frank V. DeMont welcomes your email at:

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Agassiz School class of 1925. Purchased by JPHS November 2007. Click on the image to see a larger view of it.

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Agassiz School class of 1920. Purchased by JPHS November 2007. Click on the image to see a larger view of it.

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Fifth grade class of Miss Mary C. Moretti taken in 1949. Jamaica Plain Historical Society founder Walter Marx stands fourth from the left in the top row. Paul Rudd, standing in the far left of the second row appeared in the 1978 feature film, The Betsy, and is now drama professor at The New School in New York City. Rudd also appeared on the 1970s soap operas Beacon Hill, Beulah Land, and Knots Landing. Photograph provided courtesy of Paul B. Gill, Jr. A high resolution .tif file of this photo can be downloaded here.

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The Margaret Fuller School, 1945. Photograph courtesy of Jack Frost.

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The Margaret Fuller School, 1946. Photograph courtesy of Jack Frost.

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The Margaret Fuller School, 1947. Photograph courtesy of Jack Frost.

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The Lowell School, 1948. Photograph courtesy of Jack Frost.

Grade six, room 2 class at the Agassiz School on Burroughs Street in Jamaica Plain. The teacher was Helen M. Barry and this photograph was takne on April 26, 1957. Click on the photograph to see a larger view of it.

Shown in the rear row from left to right are: Walter Carney, John Revolotis, Claire Chisholm, Richard Roberts, Uve Zebergs, Linda Oaks, Ronald Lukas, and Mark McDonough.

Shown in the 3rd row from left to right are: Charles Connell, Maureen Griffin, Joan Randall, Warren Bell, John Hurley, Holly Olson, Irene Screjins, and Ernest Nasif.

Shown in the 2nd row from left to right are: Gail MacNamara, Joan Armington, Ines Polis, Valerie Young, Kathy Hourihan, Rosemary Denaro, Elizabeth Gillette, and Judith Walsh.

Shown in the front row from left to right are: Thomas Rakes, Albert Phayland, Daniel Carey, William Grady, James Devaney, George Marcasella, William Seery, and Edward Loacano.

Photograph provided courtesy of Kathy Hourihan.

Mrs. White’s first grade class in 1952 at the Agassiz School. The photograph was taken behind the C.B. Rogers Phamaracy on Burroughs Street. Shown in each row from left to right are:

Rear row: (name not known), Peter Frikeisen, (name not known), (name not known), Edward Foley, Charles Pitts, (name not known), Ronald Lukas, (name not known), George Marcella, and John (last name not known).

Middle row: Brian Baily, (other two names not known)

Front row: Judith Walsh, (name not known), Joanne Platek, (next four names not known), Kathy Hourihan, Karen Hatch, Helen Burke, and (name not known).

Photograph courtesy of Kathy Hourihan.

The 1951 Kindergarten class at the Agassiz School. Shown in the rear row from left to right are Lorraine Lawson, Marie Coffee, Johna Panos, (name not known), William Annand, Susan Dean, Kathy Hourihan, (name not known), and Kevin Buckley. Shown in the front row from left to right are: (name not known), (name not known), (name not known), Mary Ann Walsh, (name not known), (name not known), Vincent Morgan, (name not known), Eleanor Hathaway, (name not known), and Ronald Grant. Click on the photograph to see a larger view of it. Photograph provided courtesy of Kathy Hourihan.

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Fourth grade Agassiz School class of Miss Ora McDonnell taken in 1948.

Students as numbered in the photograph:
1. George Doyle
2. Joseph McNamara
3. Ronald Barnes
4. William Leonard
5. Raymond Maguire
6. Walter Marx
7. Paul B. Gill, Jr.
8. Richard Marshall
9. John Manning
10. James Dunahue
11. James Grossi
12. Charles Gamer
13. David Hicks
14. Susan Drake
15. Elaine Hadge
16. Ann Donovan
17. Sheila Klass
18. Lorraine Christo
19. Edward Nason
20. Jonathan Boyd
21. Patricia Walsh
22. Patricia Norton
23. Joyce Fisher
24. Sheila Cohen
25. Marjorie Gates
26. Barbara Krauss
27. Donna Sweeney
28. Elaine Barr
29. Patricia McLaughlin
30. Erica Fickisen
31. Maureen Carey
32. Robert Hunt
33. Josepth Diamond
34. James Hagerty
35. James Savage
36. Richard Cyr

Photograph provided courtesy of Paul B. Gill, Jr. A high resolution .tif file of this photo can be downloaded here.

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Kindergarten class of Miss Ferry at the Mary E. Curley Primary School in 1944. Photograph provided courtesy of Paul B. Gill, Jr. A high resolution .tif file of this photo can be downloaded here.

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Mr. Paul B. Gill, the 46-year-old electrical shop teacher at the Mary E. Curley school, is flanked by members of his 1947 class. This was apparently a post-war adult education class that included returning servicemen as one student, Robert Livingston is noted on the back of the photograph as being a “photographer and pilot”. Other students shown are Joseph Lawton, Edmund Carlow, Joseph George, Walter Lyons, Albert di Giacomo, Russell Johanson, Eugene Doherty, Donald Strassel, William Johnson, Frank Kelley, Henry Corcoran, and John Bolanes. Photograph provided courtesy of Paul B. Gill, Jr. A high resolution .tif file of this photo can be downloaded here.

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Second grade class of Miss Margaret McHugh at the Mary E. Curley Primary School in 1946. Photograph provided courtesy of Paul B. Gill, Jr. A high resolution .tif file of this photo can be downloaded here.

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Third grade class of Miss Shea at the Mary E. Curley Primary School in 1947. Photograph provided courtesy of Paul B. Gill, Jr. A high resolution .tif file of this photo can be downloaded here.

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First grade class of Miss Edwina Barry at the Mary E. Curley Primary School in 1945. Photograph provided courtesy of Paul B. Gill, Jr. A high resolution .tif file of this photo can be downloaded here.

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St. Thomas Aquinas High School graduating class of 1936. Photograph donated by Jeanne Hartley, daughter of Rosalie M. Boyd. A high resolution version fo this photograph is available for download.

Graduates of the 1931 class of Jamaica Plain High School. Photograph courtesy of Eugene Smith. Original held in Jamaica Plain Historical Society archives. A high resolution version of this photograph can be downloaded here.