MG 717 - Harrisburg Central High School Collection
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The collection contains programs for reunions and commencement, photographs, issues of the "Argus," a scrapbook and news clippings. They include:
A newspaper clipping from the Sunday Patriot-News, March, 1983, with the history of the school
Reunion programs for the class of 1916 and 1926
Reunion registration for the class of 1917
Photograph of the 1916 class reunion in 1971
Issues of the yearbook, "Argus," 1919-1921, 1925-26
Commencement program, 1916
Class reunion photo of class of 1925
Class lists for class of 1925
Commencement program for Girls Central High School, 1870; issue of "Argus," 1922
List of graduates in 1922
Scrapbook of school activities of the class of 1910.
Background
The cornerstone for Central High School was laid in 1891 and the school opened in 1893. It was the finest secondary school between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. It was coed until 1920 and became Girls High until William Penn and John Harris replaced it and Harrisburg Tech in 1926. The school was located at Forster and Capital Streets. Dr. Charles B. Fager was the last principal of Central High School and made it an outstanding institution with four curricula: Classical, Latin-Scientific, English-Scientific, and Commercial, with Household Economy added.
Date(s): 1870-1983
Extent: 1 box, 10 folders