Timeless Elegance: High School Prom Dresses from the 1950s in Photos_usstories

As Americans gained more money and leisure time in the 1950s, proms became more extravagant and elaborate, bearing similarity to today’s proms. The high school gym may…

Pictures of High School Proms in the 1940s and 1950s _ USStories

In the United States, and increasingly in the United Kingdom and Canada, a promenade dance, most commonly called a prom, is a semi-formal (black tie) dance or…

30 Vintage Photographs Capture Scenes of High School Typing Classes From Between the 1950s and 1970s _ USStories

Call it keyboarding, or old-school typing… During the 1950s and ’60s typewriting was taught mostly in elementary schools, and there was a widely held conviction that typewriting…

Portraits of Highland Park High School Teenage Girls, 1947 _ USStories

Highland Park High School is a public, co-educational high school located immediately north of downtown Dallas in University Park, Dallas County, Texas. It is a part of…

32 Pictures of High School Teenagers in Des Moines, Iowa, 1947_lag

Long before the era of Facebook, texting, and clubbing, there’s the hopping soda shop scene. LIFE photographer George Skadding documented the lives of Iowa high school teenagers in the…

Pictures of High School Proms in the 1940s and 1950s_lag

In the United States, and increasingly in the United Kingdom and Canada, a promenade dance, most commonly called a prom, is a semi-formal (black tie) dance or…

Journey Back: High School Life Through the Lens of the 1970s _ US Memories _ LINH

The 1970s in America marked a period of remarkable social and cultural change, with high schools serving as microcosms of the shifting values and attitudes of the…

Pictures of High School Awkward Dances From the 1970s_top1

These vintage photographs collected by Flashbak, primarily taken in the early 1970s. It was a time before disco, but after Woodstock. It had a little bit of the…

Groovin’ Through Time: Captivating Vintage Snapshots of High School Fashion Across America in 1969 _ US Memories _ LINH

“The latest rule in girls’ high school fashion,” LIFE magazine proclaimed in 1969, “is that there isn’t any.” In contrast to the popular fashions and styles of certain decades…

Capturing the Art of Typing: Vintage Photographs Show High School Typing Classes from 1950s to 1970s_top1

In the history of American education, one subject has played a pivotal role in equipping students with essential skills for the demands of the modern world: typing….