Old Town High School Souvenir Plate [1953]
Decorative Object
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OBJ.N.2023.4Description
A decorative plate sold in 1953 to support Old Town High School's Music Booster's Club. It depicts a line drawing of the school from an aerial perspective. The plate's rim is tinted pale green, inside of which is a gold-colored design around the plate's basin and central image. The outer rim has an embossed pattern and the outermost edge of the plate is also colored gold. The stamp on the back identifies the plate design as Eggshell Georgian, which was produced in the 1930s-1950s by Homer Laughlin Plates. The customized picture of Old Town High School was added by World Wide Art Studios, Covington, Tenn. Also printed on the back of the plate is a paragraph about Old Town High School's newly built addition.The plate back reads, "This plate is being made available by the Music Boosters Club, an organization of parents and music supervisors, whose main objective is to assist in the promotion and development of music organizations in Old Town High School. Construction of the new Old Town High School building was begun in July of 1952 and was completed in the fall of 1953. The building is one of the best-planned and most attractive secondary school buildings to be found in New England and when the landscaping of the grounds is completed, the city of Old Town will have another landmark which will be greatly admired by visitors as well as by local citizens. Among the special features, there are sixteen classrooms, three laboratories, a library, modern guidance facilities, a cafeteria, a music room, a clinic room, an audio-visual room, an office-practice room and a spacious auditorium-gymnasium which will seat nearly 2,000 people. The building was designed to accommodate 550 senior high school pupils."
The front of the plate, beneath the picture of the school, reads, "Old Town High School, September 1953."