Alida, Eleanor, Ruth, Mary, Pauline and Helen

We meet the power of photography to document vast complexities of human experience at every turn. These six members of the Lynn English High School graduating class of 1929 (rescued from antique store oblivion and scanned for posterity) seem to run the gamut of style, self presentation, and knowledge of the ways of the world. They stand, unbeknownst to them, on the brink of the precipice of the Crash of November 1929. We ask: and then what happened?

Alida Du Pont

Eleanor Bisbee

Ruth Burke

Mary Adams

PaulineBW

Helen Ferabing