Brookline High School

Florence Natalie Nelson “Florv, Flo, Floss”

Class of 1929, Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts: Florence Natalie Nelson (“Florv, Flo, Floss”). The yearbook entry prints: Commercial course; activities listed: D. S. Club and Art Club; lived at 63 Highland Road. Portrait and entry from the 1929 yearbook, page 72.

Class of 1929

249 in the class of 1929 · 172 more named Nelson

Full name: Florence Natalie Nelson
Known as: Florv, Flo, Floss
Lived at: 63 Highland Road, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Course: Commercial
Ambition: “Secretary to Mr. Hoover”
Pastime: “Traveling”

Also searched as: Flo Nelson; Florence Nelson; Florence N. Nelson; Nelson, Florence.

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Clubs & teams 382
Neighbours 3
Same surname 119
Classmates 248

In context

Of the 249 entries from the Brookline High School class of 1929 read for this site, Florence's is 159th alphabetically. In the scan, Florence appears on page 72, around the middle of the run of 249 portraits read for this site (pages 31 to 96). “Girls' League” appears in 121 entries from the Brookline High School class of 1929, Florence's among them. Florence's course, Commercial, is also the course of 58 others in the 239 entries that print one (25% in all). For Brookline High School, the site holds 249 people from the class of 1929, against 232 for 1928 and 251 for 1930.

On the same scan page	Walter Joseph Murphy, Mary M. Murray, John Neary
Same club	Art Club: 15 other classmates
Same club	Class Day Dance: 24 other classmates
Same course	Commercial: 59 of 239 classmates with a course (25%)

At home, 63 Highland Road

The 1931 city directory lists Florence Natalie Nelson with the occupation “stenographer” (page).

The 1928 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Nelson at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

George F Nelson (wife Selma N), carpenter householderpage

The Nelson household is listed here in 1931 too.

What Florence did at school

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1929, page 72. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1929broo).

Published 1929, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Public Library of Brookline via the Internet Archive.

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