The purpose of this research is a transdisciplinary work that thinking about meaning of private photographs in school and local memory. The aim of this research is to explain how private and domestic photographs can representing identity of community, past and present, in its individual and collective memory. The photographs be part of Circolo Arno Photo Archive in Figline e Incisa Valdarno, near Florence in Italy during Twenty Century. These photos are considered visual and historical sources, are exhibited and analysed in relationship between school memories and Public History method experimented by a teacher in Eighty’s on elementary school.