Cambridge High and Latin School

Gertrude Jessie Littlefield “Trudie”

Class of 1923, Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Gertrude Jessie Littlefield (“Trudie”). The yearbook entry prints: came from Peabody Grammar School; activities listed: Reception Committee and G. A. A; lived at 41 Orchard Street. Portrait and entry from the Cambridge Review, page 81.

Class of 1923

319 in the class of 1923 · 17 more named Littlefield

Full name: Gertrude Jessie Littlefield
Known as: Trudie
Born: January 6, 1905
Lived at: 41 Orchard Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1923
Came from: Peabody Grammar School

Also searched as: Trudie Littlefield; Gertie Littlefield; Gertrude Littlefield; Gertrude J. Littlefield.

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Household 1
Clubs & teams 89
Neighbours 23
Same surname 11
Classmates 318
Same schools 46

In context

319 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1923 appear on this site, and Littlefield puts Gertrude 170th among them. Gertrude is printed on page 81 of the scan, around the middle of the 39-to-119 run of portrait pages. The first name Gertrude runs through 15 classes of Cambridge High and Latin School (1915 to 1930), 54 people in all. Gertrude did not arrive alone from Peabody Grammar School: 21 other classmates name it too. Against 254 for 1922 and 366 for 1924, the class of 1923 comes to 319 names on this site.

On the same scan page	John Liston, Paul F. Liston, Robert Ernest McAnern
Same earlier school	Peabody Grammar School: 21 other classmates
The book's own title	The Cambridge Review

At home, 41 Orchard Street

Same surname, same address — very likely a brother or sister.

Leland A. LittlefieldCambridge 1919

The 1925 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Littlefield at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Aaron H Littlefield (wife Jessie), clerk householderpage
Gordon A Littlefield lived herepage
Leland A Littlefield, student lived herepage
Meredith W Littlefield, student M I T lived herepage

The Littlefield household is listed here in 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1927 and 1928 too.

What Gertrude did at school

Reception Committee
G. A. A. 522
“Bells of Corneville”

Fellow members from Gertrude's own class:

What the yearbook said

Trudie” “HERE’S A CLEVER LITTLE GIRL I FIND STUDIES HARD BUT DOES NOT GRIND.” “Bells of Corneville

Here’s a clever little girl I find studies hard but does not grind.

Also grew up on Orchard Street

The class of 1923

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Others named Littlefield

Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.

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Also came from Peabody Grammar School

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1923, page 81. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1923unse).

Published 1923, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Malden Public Library / Boston Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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