School Yearbooks at the Iowa City Public Library

Recently I had a conversation with one of the Library's 2nd floor Information Pages about the yearbook collection at ICPL.  Hannah had become curious about her paternal grandfather and looked through our collection of University of Iowa Hawkeye yearbooks to see if she could find him.

Hannah's grandfather passed away in 1965, leaving a wife and 6 young children - Hannah's father was four years old at the time.  Her grandmother passed away in 2005.   Hannah found her grandfather  in the 1949 year book, and she made an interesting discovery.  Her grandfather had been a member of Psi Omega Fraternity.  Hannah made a copy of the picture, and took it along to the next family gathering.  Turns out this fact was news to everyone.  The picture is now on Hannah's refrigerator.

ICPL has quite a few yearbooks in our collection.  They are stored at the 2nd floor Page Station, and they do not check out of the library.   Unfortunately we do not have a complete collection of any of them - there are years missing from each title.   For a basic catalog search, click here.  

Yearbooks ICPL owns:

• The Hawkeye - University of Iowa  1893-1987
• The Red and White - Iowa City City High School  1917 - 2013
• The Trojan Epic - Iowa City West High School 1969-2013
• The Spectrum: Regina Catholic Education Center 1977-1996
• The Hawkeye - University High School 1961-1971
• Baby Hawklety - Central Junior High School  1973/74 - 1982/83
• Reflections - North West Junior High School  1973-1987
• On Forever More/SE Memories - South East Junior High School  1972/73 - 2002/03
• St Mary's High School 1921
• C.E.C. Yearbook 1990-1992
• P.S.#4  1978
• The Elm -Lone Tree Community High School 1978-2008
• The Spartan - Solon Community High School 1970-1993
• The Clipper - Clear Creek/Amana Community Schools  1983-2007
• The Reverie - Iowa Mennonite School 1947-1969

We would love to add missing volumes to our UI, City High and West High year book collections.  If you have a volume you would consider donating to the library, please contact Beth Fisher at beth-fisher@icpl.org to see if that volume is one we need.