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Just a quick follow-up on last week’s discussion of a 1914 Queen Anne High School playfield photo. I did some digging and it looks like my initial thought that the field was to the south of the school along 2nd/3rd and Highland is most likely wrong. Though the pictures are from more than a decade later, they give us a good idea of what this area looked like. The photos come from the 1928 Kuay Annual (QAHS yearbook) showing construction of the auditorium, which was just behind the original structure to the south (where the fountain is now). In addition, the yearbook these images were scanned from was owned by Custer Chappell (pictured below), who was a successful track star at the school. He was one of the only black American students at the school in 1928. Click on the images for more resolution.

Queen Anne High School, 1928.

Bird’s-eye view of new center of activities — the auditorium.

Skeleton of new auditorium.

Civic auditorium from new locker rooms.

“We be of sky aspiring, and ambitious thoughts.”

The 1928 Queen Anne High School yearbook these images were scanned from was owned by Custer Chappell (pictured), who was a track and football star at the school. He was one of the only black American students at the school in 1928.

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