It sat for years in an antique shop in Buzzards Bay, hidden to most or all of those whose faces shown so clearly from beneath its glass.

It’s probable that the black and white picture of the Wareham High School Class of 1934, protected by a thick, brown frame, hung on a wall somewhere else for even longer, though it’s unclear who the original owner was or where it came from. That is, until Wareham High grad Nathan Caradimos decided that it had sat there long enough, and he was going to do something with it.

An avid picker (one who scours thrift shops, antique stores, yard sales, etc. looking valuable items/collectibles, often for resale but not always), Caradimos said he noticed the picture a while back, but it was too expensive for him to purchase. Still, he kept his eye on it, and when the price dropped recently, he sprung for it.

Now, he wants to find someone—anyone—from the Class of ’34 that might be alive to enjoy seeing his or herself as a 17 or 18-year-old high school senior.

“If anyone’s still alive, I’d like them to know about it,” said Caradimos, who graduated in 2012. “I’d want them to see the picture, and hope they could share any stories that they have about the high school at that time.”

Caradimos said he has an affection for relics, and likes to reincarnate the old items, often looking more deeply into their history rather than letting them sit on some shelf in an abandoned storage space or flea market.

“I like to look into the stories of antique furniture, find out their uses before,” he said, saying he recently found and repurposed an old radio cabinet that had been cast aside. “It was going to be thrown away, but I dumpster dove and saved it.”

As for the picture, he said he plans on giving it back to the high school (“That’s its home.”), but for now, he’s interested in finding out if anyone from the picture is still alive.

“Most of them would be 100 or close to 100 (years old),” he said.

Caradimos has researched some of the names, noting that at least five or six of the people pictured in the photo have passed on and were buried in town cemeteries—but there were at least a few people whose names he was unable to find.

Though he hasn’t been able to locate anyone alive from the photo, he still remains hopeful.

“I know its a shot in the dark, but its better to have tried than to not have tried at all,” he said.

The names of those in the photograph are: William Ellis, Robert Hunter, Richard Kiernan, William Kirby, Alfred Beauchemin, John Lodi, Victor Osborne, Maurice Murphy, Oren Hackett, Lena Bryant, Katherine Sullivan, Lillian Bradshaw, Annica Correia, Lillian Cattabriga, Verna Blaney, Lillian Tomasik, Edith Cobb, Hazel Archibald, Grace McCoy, Doris Andrews, Madeline Collins, Banilda Graccia, Eleanor Borghi, Brenton C. Patterson, Evelyn Burgess, Mary Bordini, Sara Westgate, Samuel Gage, Frank Bailey, Stephanie Ambrose, Edna Martin, Ethel Cowgill, Robert Hadley, Virginia Ricker, Helen Shaw, Ruth Merritt, Alfred Borsari, Elmo Balboni, Ruth Kirby, Catherine Govoni, Romano Barras, Muriel Buck, Mary Strabel, Lillian Parker, Marjorie Griffin, Emogene Cobb, James Ladner, Lloyd Peckham, M. Larner, Pauline Hathaway, Marion Jones, Florence Hunter, Katherine Savery, Marion Gould, and Edwin Ashley.

Those with information on the picture or its subjects can contact Caradimos at 774-454-1074 or 508-295-3771.