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Re: College/University Archivists



Susan Tucker wrote:

> Does anyone have a firm date on the beginning of yearbooks in US colleges
> and universities?  Or, please, to those archivists reading here at  some
> of the oldest institutions,  what year did your yearbooks begin?
>
> Does anyone know of the year such books first incorporated photos, first
> actually had photos printed on the pages?

Susan,
You might want to talk to someone at the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley.  I
remember seeing copies of the UCB yearbooks with tipped-in photographs of the
campus from (I believe) the early or mid-1870's.  Dick King, University of
Arizona

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