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George Henry and Agnes Gross were married in a quiet ceremony at the home of her sister Ira, in Baltimore, Maryland. The couple chose to make a festive occasion of their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Family and friends were invited to the Gross residence on Cloud Avenue on April 8, 1950, for a reception. Left to right, are George Henry Gross, Agnes Harrison Gross, and their son, Elwood Harrison Gross.

Carlene

Berwyn postal box receipt Giles-Sharps family For one quarter year

Berwyn postal box receipt Giles-Sharps family For one quarter year

Baby picture

In Lakeland

Gray, the son of Louis Gray and Florence Wethers Gray, spent much of his Lakeland youth at the Navahoe Street home of his aunt Gertrude Corprew and with his cousins at their grandfather James H. Gray's home near the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He attended school in Lakeland until 1950, when his class was among the first to attend Fairmont Heights Junior-Senior High School.

First and Second Grade class

Derailment of B&O freight train at Lakeland crossing.

Washington Evening Star Home of Sazmile Presto

Washington Post May 12, 1952 Page 1 21 cars derailed from a freight train traveling along the Baltimore and Ohio. The accident happened at the crossing at Lakeland Road. A fire broke out among two of the cars containing naphtha. It burned for 17 hours. Police cars outfitted with loudspeakers were used to alert the community of possible danger. Cargo on the train included naphtha, ale, beer, rock salt, soda and printing paper.

Sunday Star May 11 1952

Evening Star May 11 1952

Evening Star May 12 1952

Track and Field medal awarded to Carl Cager back states 1953 880 relay

Cast of School program "Wedding of the Painted Doll" at Lakeland School

CT & FC 1953 220 Gold

Awarded to Carl Cager South Atlantic Association AAU 880 REL '53

On April 5, 1953, Saxoline Briscoe married Sherman Campbell at her home on Lakeland Road. The bride’s father and siblings pose with her in this picture. From left to right, are Joseph Louis Briscoe, Spencer M. Briscoe, Mary Ruth Briscoe Jackson, George Phillip Briscoe (father of the bride), Saxoline Briscoe Campbell, and Joseph McDonald Briscoe. (Courtesy of Joseph Louis Briscoe.)

Lakeland schools supplemented academic activities with variety shows that helped children develop performance skills and confidence in public speaking. In 1953, students at Lakeland Elementary School performed a Tom Thumb wedding, inspired by the song “The Wedding of the Painted Doll,” from the 1929 film The Broadway Melody. The school’s presentation included Lakeland boys and girls, as well as those who attended the school from other communities along U.S. Route 1.

Lakeland schools supplemented academic activities with variety shows that helped children develop performance skills and confidence in public speaking. In 1953, students at Lakeland Elementary School performed a Tom Thumb wedding, inspired by the song “The Wedding of the Painted Doll,” from the 1929 film The Broadway Melody. The school’s presentation included Lakeland boys and girls, as well as those who attended the school from other communities along U.S. Route 1

Edwina Herald Buckner stands with her fourth- and fifth-grade class in 1953, in front of the Lakeland Elementary and Junior High School. The third through sixth grade classes were housed in metal-clad temporary buildings behind the older brick building. Buckner taught both classes and offered free ballet lessons after school.

Earned by Carl Cager 3rd Open Event 440 Relay 1954

Awarded to Carl "Flash" Cager Silver

Eastern A.A.U. 1954

George Elliott Randall was six months old in 1954, when this photograph was taken. “What a time we had getting him ready for this picture,” his mother remembered. “His sister Janet walked him up and down the street and fed him plenty of Sugar Babies.” This photograph of young Randall was taken by Verdell Nesbitt, Lakeland’s own photographer.

George Randall was six months

In 1935, Nancy Gross Tabbs built this house on Augusta Avenue (now Navahoe Street) for her daughter, Janine, and herself. Viola Gross, and Margret Gross Gray, Tabbs’ nieces, later inherited the home as it is pictured here in the 1950s. In 1989 a great-great niece of Tabbs purchased the home from her great-aunt’s estate.

No markings on rear

James Weems (third row, second from right) was inducted into the U.S. Navy in 1944 and went for training at the U.S. Naval Training Center in Bainbridge, MD.

Downtown College Park

Hand colored black and white studio portrait

A service of Dent Chapel AME Church at Embry AME Church. The Dent congregation held services at Embry when flooding made their building unusable.

US Army

Dent Chapel AME Church had services at Embry after their church flooded. It was near Peace Cross in Bladensburg. Shown is Rev. Fields of Dent AME Church. Embry shared their church building with the congregation of Dent from 1955 to 1956

This birthday party for Hallie Adams took place at a home in Lakeland circa 1955. The guests were (left to right) Maseo Campbell, Sr., Elizabeth Campbell, Mary Brooks Brewer, Emma Dory, Calvin Adams, Peggy Folkes, Joe Harrington, June Adams, Mattie Johnson, Katie Mae Barnes, and Helen Campbell.

Savillie Gustav in plaid

South Atlantic Association ,50,55 Bronze

Sick visit, Agnes Gross, unknown, Pauline Gray, Dessie Randall Thomas

on porch of home on Pierce Avenue

Pictured with young girl

Usher Day Macedonia A.M.E. Church preached by Rev Britton.

Children of Embry join with area AME youth at Turner Memorial AME Church at 6th and I Street in Washington DC. That building was once home to Adas Israel Congregation. When that group sold the building it was purchased in 1951 and renovated to meet the needs of an AME congregation. Turner has since moved to building in Hyattsville Maryland. The Washington building has been returned to much of it's original state and is now known as the Sixth and I Historic Synagogue. It is a non-denominational, non membership, non traditional Jewish synagogue, The space holds religious services for various denominations and hosts cultural events for the public.

Studio portrait

Mary Brooks Brewer

City of College Park and University of Maryland