For D.C. teacher Bill Webb, school picture day went on for years
, the repository for the history of the public school system in the District. And Bill Webb? “I describe him as having been born into the D.C. public school system,” said archives directorWilliam T. Webb Jr.’s grandmother was a teacher. So was his mother. It seemed inevitable that Webb would become a teacher. He started his teaching career in 1952 at John Burroughs Elementary School.
There was something Webb enjoyed nearly as much as teaching: taking photos. He got into the hobby at Hardy Elementary, where his mother taught, pointing anIn 1968, Webb left the classroom to develop curriculums for the school system. He later helped organize the public relations department of the D.C. school system. This was at a time when the D.C. school system needed all the help it could get.“He really was about shining a light on” the D.C.
Webb took formal photos, teacher and administrator headshots and the like, but what he really liked were images showing students involved in the act of enjoying school. “People who knew him say he was everywhere with that camera,” Springle said. “He was just bounding across the city.” Webb focused his lens on all sorts of things: Holiday programs in the school cafeteria. Recess on the playground. The body shop at a vocational high school. Students behind the wheels of simulators in a drivers education class. Visits by dignitaries. (
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