Cambridge High and Latin School

Robert Adamson “Bob, Bill”

Robert Adamson (“Bob, Bill”) appears in the 1924 yearbook of Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, MA, listed at 27 Prince Street. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1924

366 in the class of 1924 · 4 more named Adamson

Full name: Robert Adamson
Known as: Bob, Bill
Born: March 28, 1907
Lived at: 27 Prince Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1924
Came from: Webster Grammar School
Headed for: Tufts

Also searched as: Bob Adamson; Bobby Adamson; Adamson, Robert.

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Household 1
Neighbours 2
Classmates 365
Same schools 114

In context

Sorted by surname, Robert opens the list of 366 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1924 on this site. Turning the scan to page 29 shows Robert; the portraits we read from this book run from page 29 to page 122. The yearbook lists 48 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1924 as coming from Webster Grammar School, including Robert. In the 14 classes of Cambridge High and Latin School between 1915 and 1930 that this site covers, 36 people have the first name Robert, with the largest group (6) in 1930. Counting only people with pages here, the class of 1924 has 366 entries, while the neighbouring classes have 319 for 1923 and 424 for 1925.

On the same scan page	Catherine Agnes Ahern, Beatrice Allen, Evelyn Loretta Allen
Same earlier school	Webster Grammar School: 47 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 123 of 296 classmates with a plan (42%)

At home, 27 Prince Street

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

Vera Marie AdamsonCambridge 1926

The 1925 city directory lists Robert Adamson with the occupation “foreman” (page).

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

Robert E Adamson (wife Maria S), foreman householderpage

The Adamson household is listed here in 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1927, 1928 and 1930 too.

Also grew up on Prince Street

The class of 1924

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Other people named Robert Adamson in the archive

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Robert AdamsonBain News Service photographs 1913

Also came from Webster Grammar School

Also headed for Tufts

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1924, page 29. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1924unse).

Published 1924, 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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