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- 15. [Photographic Slides of Normandy High School circa-1980]
15. [Photographic Slides of Normandy High School circa-1980]
15. [Photographic Slides of Normandy High School circa-1980]
[Slides] : [Education] : [African-Americana] : [St. Louis County, Missouri]: (ca. 1979-1983). About 250 color film slides in 2" square card mounts (usually with Kodak branding). Some scattered notations and date stamps to mounts. All about very good or better. Acquired by us as a loose collection and now housed in mylar sleeves and clear album pages, all tidily stored in an archival binder.
A substantial archive of more than 250 film slides documenting classrooms, athletics, extra-curricular ativites, etc... of Normandy High School in North St. Louis County from about 1979-1983. A once-thriving, majority-Black school district, Normandy saw massive corporate flight and a loss of manufacturing jobs obliterate its tax base in the years since these images were captured. This economic collapse, coupled with the draconian Reagan-era cuts in the Federal education budget, sent the district on a rapid decline that culminated in a state takeover and loss of its accreditation in 2015, the year after it graduated a student named Michael Brown.
A poignant and nostalgic glimpse at an important north St. Louis institution. Acquired from a local estate, we suspect they were part of yearbook production.
[Slides] : [Education] : [African-Americana] : [St. Louis County, Missouri]: (ca. 1979-1983). About 250 color film slides in 2" square card mounts (usually with Kodak branding). Some scattered notations and date stamps to mounts. All about very good or better. Acquired by us as a loose collection and now housed in mylar sleeves and clear album pages, all tidily stored in an archival binder.
A substantial archive of more than 250 film slides documenting classrooms, athletics, extra-curricular ativites, etc... of Normandy High School in North St. Louis County from about 1979-1983. A once-thriving, majority-Black school district, Normandy saw massive corporate flight and a loss of manufacturing jobs obliterate its tax base in the years since these images were captured. This economic collapse, coupled with the draconian Reagan-era cuts in the Federal education budget, sent the district on a rapid decline that culminated in a state takeover and loss of its accreditation in 2015, the year after it graduated a student named Michael Brown.
A poignant and nostalgic glimpse at an important north St. Louis institution. Acquired from a local estate, we suspect they were part of yearbook production.