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This gallery features Perkins athletes and athletic teams from 1908 through the 1940s.

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Photo 17 members of boys’ athletic team and their coaches seated on steps of school building. Nine girls in bathing suits and caps gather at one end of the pool, waiting for class to begin.. Young man, wearing Perkins athletic team uniform, throwing shot put. A few bystanders are watching.. A young woman tosses a horseshoe while several classmates look on.. High school girl, wearing bloomers, blouse and bandana, performing on rings in gymnastic competition.. Twenty boys stand in formation holding wands overhead.. Team photo of nine members of the 1943 team posing in the gymnasium.. An Upper School boy clears the high jump bar while a crowd looks on.. Seven Lower School students stretch out and hand onto bars overhead.. Twenty or more Upper School girls form a zigzag dance line in Dwight Hall.. Ten Upper School boys for a human pyramid. Four boys form the base, supporting three boys on the second level, with two boys on the third level and one boy on top.. Two girls play shuffleboard while many of their classmates cluster in small groups and chat..
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