![Black and white photograph of 10 students and 2 teachers; Mr. John seated on right]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1610500961/rectoryschoolorg/qiftk8vktrldmld80znu/1950or1951_StudentGroup_RHD_crop_193732copy.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1610500961/rectoryschoolorg/qiftk8vktrldmld80znu/1950or1951_StudentGroup_RHD_crop_193732copy.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1610500961/rectoryschoolorg/qiftk8vktrldmld80znu/1950or1951_StudentGroup_RHD_crop_193732copy.jpg","width":800}])
Are you in this 1950s photograph, possibly taken in a Memorial common room? Identify the who, when, and where and help us know the "story behind the picture." Leave a comment or email archives@rectoryschool.org.
Photograph: Rectory Archives, 1950s
Rectory History Detective
Put on your Sherlock Holmes cap, bring out the magnifying glass…and help us identify these photographs or objects! When? Who? Where? What? Do you have a story?
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![Black & white photo of students on a field trip to Old Sturbridge Village circa 1984.]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1607969742/rectoryschoolorg/jjwwjydzdmsbz5ioxn4z/OSVFieldTrip1984_CROPPED.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1607969742/rectoryschoolorg/jjwwjydzdmsbz5ioxn4z/OSVFieldTrip1984_CROPPED.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1607969742/rectoryschoolorg/jjwwjydzdmsbz5ioxn4z/OSVFieldTrip1984_CROPPED.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1607969742/rectoryschoolorg/jjwwjydzdmsbz5ioxn4z/OSVFieldTrip1984_CROPPED.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1607969742/rectoryschoolorg/jjwwjydzdmsbz5ioxn4z/OSVFieldTrip1984_CROPPED.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_6/v1607969742/rectoryschoolorg/jjwwjydzdmsbz5ioxn4z/OSVFieldTrip1984_CROPPED.jpg","width":2200}])
The photograph is labeled “1984 Sturbridge” and appears to be a field trip to Old Sturbridge Village, a nineteenth-century outdoor living history museum in Sturbridge, Massachusetts.
![Rectory School Patch]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1606917817/rectoryschoolorg/nvtvp79h3qyx0ubtrusj/RSpatch.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1606917817/rectoryschoolorg/nvtvp79h3qyx0ubtrusj/RSpatch.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1606917817/rectoryschoolorg/nvtvp79h3qyx0ubtrusj/RSpatch.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1606917817/rectoryschoolorg/nvtvp79h3qyx0ubtrusj/RSpatch.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1606917817/rectoryschoolorg/nvtvp79h3qyx0ubtrusj/RSpatch.jpg","width":1600}])
Do you recognize this black and orange patch? Bring its history to life and tell us what you know!