Cambridge High and Latin School

Svea Swenson

Svea Swenson is one of 462 graduates in the class of 1926 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 1926 yearbook entry gives: came from Roberts Grammar School; headed for Stenographer; lived at 186a Harvard Street.

Class of 1926

462 in the class of 1926 · 14 more named Swenson

Full name: Svea Swenson
Lived at: 186a Harvard Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1926
Came from: Roberts Grammar School
Headed for: Stenographer

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Household 1
Neighbours 88
Same surname 9
Classmates 461
Same schools 164

In context

462 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1926 appear on this site, and Swenson puts Svea 422nd among them. The entry is on page 130 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 23 to page 140. Harvard Street turns up in 14 different Cambridge High and Latin School classes between 1917 and 1930, 87 people in all. Neighbours on paper: 8 classmates share Harvard Street with Svea. Plans for a college or university made up 55% of the classifiable plans in the class of 1926 (197 of 355), against 54% in 1925 and 54% in 1927.

On the same scan page	Beatrice Magdalen Sutkus, Julia Rita Sutkus, Julia Dorothy Sweeney
Same street	Harvard Street: 8 other classmates
Same earlier school	Roberts Grammar School: 17 other classmates
Same kind of plan	work: 47 of 388 classmates with a plan (12%)

At home, 186a Harvard Street

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

Ruth M. SwensonCambridge 1927

The 1927 city directory lists Svea Swenson with the occupation “stenographer” (page).

The 1926–27 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Swenson at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Svea Swenson, stenographer lived herepage

The Swenson household is listed here in 1917, 1921, 1925 and 1928 too.

What Svea did at school

G. A. A., 1923-24

What the yearbook said

She's quiet and neat And quite discreet

Also grew up on Harvard Street

The class of 1926

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Others named Swenson

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

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Also came from Roberts Grammar School

Also headed for Stenographer

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1926, page 130. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1926unse).

Published 1926, 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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