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May 01

School Days

Posted on May 1, 2024 at 3:03 PM by Luciana Spracher

It’s May, and that means its time for May Day and school graduations! As we continue our Children in the Archives series, we wanted to share a few photographs from our collections that focus on local students.


May Day at Cuyler, undated

“May Day at Cuyler,” undated.

W. W. Law Photograph Collection, Item 1121-100_0054. City of Savannah Municipal Archives.


Cuyler Junior High Graduates, 1939

Cuyler Junior High School graduates, January 1939.

W. W. Law Photograph Collection, Item 1121-100_0675. City of Savannah Municipal Archives.

 Students with \

From a series of photographs showing students in an unidentified classroom with “Our Plans” for school, undated.

W. W. Law Photograph Collection, Item 1121-100_0961. City of Savannah Municipal Archives.

 Pulaski Elementary School 4th Graders, 1997

Mrs. Vedelle Williams 4th grade class from Pulaski Elementary School, with W. W. Law, on a field trip to the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum, February 29, 1997.

W. W. Law Photograph Collection, Item 1121-100_1238. City of Savannah Municipal Archives.


To learn more about the Municipal Archives and our collections, visit www.savannahga.gov/MunicipalArchives.