Guide to the Brooklyn Yearbook Collection, BCMS

Brooklyn Public Library - Brooklyn Collection, 2018

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Guide to the Brooklyn Yearbook Collection, BCMS.0031

Finding aid prepared by Alla Roylance, Librarian; Ally

Malinenko, Librarian; Diana Bowers-Smith, Archivist

This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit

November 27, 2019


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Table of Contents

Summary Information ................................................................................................................................. 6

Scope and Contents....................................................................................................................................... 7

Arrangement...................................................................................................................................................7

Administrative Information .........................................................................................................................7

Related Materials ........................................................................................................................................ 8

Controlled Access Headings..........................................................................................................................8

Collection Inventory...................................................................................................................................... 9

Abraham Lincoln High School............................................................................................................... 9

Academy for Environmental Leadership................................................................................................ 9

Adelphi Academy.................................................................................................................................... 9

Adelphi College....................................................................................................................................... 9

Alexander Hamilton Junior High School..............................................................................................10

Alexander Hamilton Vocational High School...................................................................................... 10

All Saints Commercial High School.....................................................................................................10

Arthur S. Somers Intermediate School (I.S. 252)................................................................................. 10

Automotive High School....................................................................................................................... 10

Bay Ridge High School.........................................................................................................................11

Berkeley Institute................................................................................................................................... 11

Berkeley Carroll Street School..............................................................................................................12

Berkeley Carroll School........................................................................................................................ 12

Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School.......................................................................................... 12

Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School..............................................................................................12

Boys and Girls High School................................................................................................................. 13

Boys High School..................................................................................................................................13


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Brooklyn College...................................................................................................................................13

Brooklyn College of Pharmacy............................................................................................................. 14

Brooklyn Evening High School............................................................................................................ 14

Brooklyn Female Academy................................................................................................................... 14

Brooklyn Friends School....................................................................................................................... 14

Brooklyn Preparatory.............................................................................................................................15

Brooklyn High School of Automotive Trades...................................................................................... 16

Brooklyn Technical High School..........................................................................................................16

Bushwick High School.......................................................................................................................... 16

Canarsie High School............................................................................................................................ 17

Cathedral College of Immaculate Conception...................................................................................... 17

Charles O'Dewey J.H.S. (M.S. 136)..................................................................................................... 18

Clara Barton Vocational High School.................................................................................................. 18

East Midwood Jewish Center................................................................................................................18

East New York Vocational School....................................................................................................... 18

Eastern District High School.................................................................................................................19

E. B. Shallow Intermediate School....................................................................................................... 19

Edward R. Murrow High School.......................................................................................................... 19

Eli Whitney Vocational High School....................................................................................................20

Erasmus Hall High School.................................................................................................................... 20

Fontbonne Hall...................................................................................................................................... 20

Fort Hamilton High School................................................................................................................... 21

Franklin K. Lane High School.............................................................................................................. 21

George Westinghouse Vocational High School....................................................................................21

Girls High School.................................................................................................................................. 21

James Madison High School................................................................................................................. 22

John M. Coleman Junior High School..................................................................................................22


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Kingsborough Community College.......................................................................................................23

Lafayette High School...........................................................................................................................23

Long Island College of Medicine..........................................................................................................23

Long Island University.......................................................................................................................... 23

Luis Munoz Marin School (P.S. 314)................................................................................................... 24

Manual Training High School/John Jay High School.......................................................................... 24

Math and Science Exploratory School (M.S. 447)............................................................................... 25

Maxwell Teachers Training College..................................................................................................... 25

Midwood High School.......................................................................................................................... 25

Montauk Junior High School................................................................................................................ 25

Most Holy Trinity High School............................................................................................................ 26

New Utrecht High School..................................................................................................................... 26

Packer Collegiate Institute.....................................................................................................................26

P.S. 193.................................................................................................................................................. 26

Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn..........................................................................................................27

Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School...................................................................................... 27

Pratt Institute..........................................................................................................................................27

Prospect Heights High School...............................................................................................................28

Samuel J. Tilden High School.............................................................................................................. 28

Sarah J. Hale Vocational High School..................................................................................................28

School of Journalism and Technology (P.S. 506)................................................................................ 29

Seth Low Junior High School............................................................................................................... 29

Sheepshead Bay High School............................................................................................................... 29

St. Agnes Seminary............................................................................................................................... 29

St. Ann's School.................................................................................................................................... 30

St. Augustine Diocesan High School....................................................................................................30

St. Edmund Preparatory High School................................................................................................... 30


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St. Francis College.................................................................................................................................31

St. Francis Preparatory School.............................................................................................................. 31

St. Francis Xavier Academy..................................................................................................................31

St. John's Preparatory School................................................................................................................31

St. John's University School of Law.....................................................................................................32

St. John's University College of Business Administration................................................................... 32

St. John's University Teachers College.................................................................................................32

St. Joseph's College for Women........................................................................................................... 33

St. Joseph’s Commercial High School..................................................................................................33

Saint Mary's Hospital School of Nursing............................................................................................. 33

Saint Saviour High School.................................................................................................................... 33

Thomas Jefferson High School............................................................................................................. 34

William H. Maxwell Vocational High School......................................................................................35

Winthrop Junior High School............................................................................................................... 35


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Summary Information

Repository Brooklyn Public Library - Brooklyn Collection

Title Brooklyn Yearbook Collection

Date 1849-2014

Extent 36.0 Linear feet

Location Brooklyn Collection Reserve Room

Language English

Abstract A collection of yearbooks from Brooklyn schools.

Preferred Citation The researcher should cite the individual yearbook as well as this

collection, which should be cited as the Brooklyn Yearbook Collection,

Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection.

Printable version

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Scope and Contents

The Brooklyn Yearbook Collection spans over 100 years of Brooklyn educational history. In addition tothe class listings and photographs that are useful in genealogical research, the yearbooks provide a wealthof information about academics, clubs, athletic groups, and student activities in Brooklyn in the 19th and20th centuries. Many of the publications included in this collection are compendiums of student artworkand writing, with visually striking design and content. The collection is consistently growing due to activeacquisitions and donations.

Arrangement

The yearbooks are arranged alphabetically by school name. Each school's yearbooks are arrangedchronologically on the shelf. The yearbooks' titles are noted, but do not affect the physical arrangement.

Administrative Information

Publication Information

Brooklyn Public Library - Brooklyn Collection , 2018

Access

Collection is located in the Brooklyn Collection at the Central Branch at Grand Army Plaza. Thecollection may only be used in the library and is not available through interlibrary loan. Requests to viewthe collection must be made at least 48 hours in advance of visit.

Use

While many items in the Brooklyn Collection are unrestricted, we do not own reproduction rights to allmaterials. Be aware of the several kinds of rights that might apply: copyright, licensing and trademarks.The researcher assumes all responsibility for copyright questions.

Provenance


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This is a composite collection from many different sources that include both purchases and donations.

Related Materials

Ephemera Collection: Most of the schools listed here are also represented in our ephemera files, whichcontain graduation ceremony programs, report cards, invitations, and other materials.

High School Newspaper Collection, 1853-1975: A collection of publications from Brooklyn schools,covering life in the schools as well as events in their communities. Note: This collection is currentlybeing reprocessed. Please contact us for access.

Class Photographs Collection: A small collection of group photographs from Brooklyn schools, spanningthe years 1904-2002.

Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)

• New York City Public Schools.

Genre(s)

• School yearbooks

Subject(s)

• Church schools• Private schools -- New York (State) -- New York.• Public schools -- New York (State) -- New York.


Abraham Lincoln High School

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Collection Inventory

Abraham Lincoln High School

Landmark

June 1935, June 1936, January 1937, January 1938, June 1944,June 1949, 1989

Academy for Environmental Leadership

2010-2012, 2014

Adelphi Academy

Adelphic

1889, 1944, 1951, 1952

Adelphi College

Oracle

1906, 1910, 1938


Alexander Hamilton Junior High School

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Alexander Hamilton Junior High School

Ledger

June 1929, 1937

Alexander Hamilton Vocational High School

Technician

June 1947, January & June 1948, June 1950

All Saints Commercial High School

Excelsior

1959, 1967

Arthur S. Somers Intermediate School (I.S. 252)

1989-1998, 2000-2005, 2007, 2008

Automotive High School


Bay Ridge High School

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Crossroads

1977

Bay Ridge High School

Maroon and White

1924, January & June 1941, January 1942, 1944, May & December 1945, February & June 1947,

January & June 1949, 1962–1964

Note: 1944, 1945, 1963 & 1964 are art and literary supplements to the yearbook, not the yearbook

proper.

Berkeley Institute

1942, 1948, 1956, 1958-1961

Berkeleydian [literary magazine]

November 1910 - June 1911 [monthly issues in this time span, bound together in one volume]

Lion/The Berkeley Lion

1965, 1974, 1977, 1979, 1981


Berkeley Carroll Street School

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Berkeley Carroll Street School

Lion/The Berkeley Lion

1985-1987

Berkeley Carroll School

What a Shape We're In (1989), The Big Picture (1990), Fresh Perspectives (1992), All the Pieces Fit

(1993), Think, Out Loud (1994), Connections (1996), The Sky’s the Limit (1998), Millennium (2000),

Defining Us (2001), Good, Times (2002), A Work in Progress (2003), Metamorphosis (2006), Sui

Generis (2007), Transitions (2008), Express Yourself (2009), Filling the Blanks (2013)

Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School

Pagoda

1980-1985, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001–2013

Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School

Loughlinite

June 1946, 1949, 1954–1957, 1960


Boys and Girls High School

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Boys and Girls High School

Students' Centennial Reader

1979

Boys High School

Red and Black

1899–1901, 1908, 1909–1910, 1912, 1916, June 1928

Senior Recorder

January 1935, June 1937, June 1941, June 1943, January 1950, 1961, 1963, 1964

Paragon

1962

Brooklyn College

Broeklundian


Brooklyn College of Pharmacy

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1933-1938, 1940-1946, 1948, 1951-1954, 1964, 1966, 1994

Brooklyn College of Pharmacy

Crimson and Gold

1923

Brooklyn Evening High School

Evening Star

1914-1916

Brooklyn Female Academy

Messenger Bird

1849

Brooklyn Friends School

Friends School


Brooklyn Preparatory

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1923, 1929, 1930

Life

1934, 1936

Senior

1938

Blue and Gray

1937, 1939

Image

1960-1962

Brooklyn Friends

1985, 1986, 2013, 2016

Brooklyn Preparatory

Blue Book


Brooklyn High School of Automotive Trades

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1940-1943

Brooklyn High School of Automotive Trades

Headlight

1948

Brooklyn Technical High School

Survey

June 1925, January 1928, January 1929, January 1930, January 1931, January 1932

Blueprint

June 1933, January & June 1934, June 1935, June 1936, January & June 1937, January & June 1938,

January 1939, January & June 1941, January & June 1942, January & June 1943, January 1945, January

& June 1946, June 1947, June 1948, January 1949, January 1950, January 1951, January 1952, January

& June 1953, January 1954, January 1955, January 1957, January & June 1958, January 1959, January

1960, 1965, 1978, 1990

Bushwick High School

Bushwick Beacon


Canarsie High School

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1915

Senior Year Book

June 1925, January 1929, January 1930

Oriole

January 1940, January 1944, January 1946, 1947, 1955, 1959, 1960-1968

Drummer

1983

Canarsie High School

Looking Glass

1977-1979, 1981-1986, 1989, 1990, 1992-1995, 1998, 2000-2002, 2004, 2010

Cathedral College of Immaculate Conception

Cathedral Annual

1941, 1946, 1947, 1950, 1951


Charles O'Dewey J.H.S. (M.S. 136)

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Charles O'Dewey J.H.S. (M.S. 136)

Reflections

1969, 1971, 1972, 1975-1982, 1984-1987, 1992, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006

Clara Barton Vocational High School

Bartonian

June 1959, June 1962

East Midwood Jewish Center

Sefer Hashonoh

1939

East New York Vocational School

Crossroads


Eastern District High School

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June 1944, January 1945, January 1946, January 1947, January 1948, June 1948, January 1949, January

1950, January 1951, June 1951, January 1952, June 1952, June 1953, June 1954, June 1955, June 1956,

June 1957, June 1958, June 1959, June 1960, June 1961, June 1962, June 1963, June 1964

Eastern District High School

Eastern

June 1936, June 1937, January 1943

Knight

1972

E. B. Shallow Intermediate School

Shallow Bugle

1990

The Trumpet

June 1933

Edward R. Murrow High School


Eli Whitney Vocational High School

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Perspectives

1995

Eli Whitney Vocational High School

Torch

1963-1965

Erasmus Hall High School

Flying Dutchman

1901, 1911, 1920

Arch

1934, June 1935, June 1940, January 1942, 1943, January 1945, June 1946, 1959

Fontbonne Hall

Fontbonne


Fort Hamilton High School

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1948, 1960, 1961

Fort Hamilton High School

Tower

1947, January 1949, 1962-1970, 1973-1977, 1988, 1995, 1997

Franklin K. Lane High School

Senior Echoes

June 1932, January 1935, 1938, January 1939, January 1949, 1960-1963

George Westinghouse Vocational High School

Torch

1964-1966, 1969-1970, 1972-1975, 1978-1982, 1984-1986, 1990, 1992-1994, 1999, 2003-2005, 2007,

2009-2010, 2013

Girls High School

Triennial


James Madison High School

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1910, 1913

Blue and Gold

Vols. 1, 2, 3/4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15: 1915-1930, 1933-1947

Bound individual years: 1938, June 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, June 1957, 1957, 1958,

1959, 1960, June 1961, June 1962, June 1963

Unbound in document box: 1922, 1923, 1931-1934, 1943-1946, 1948, 1956

Interlude

1934

James Madison High School

Log/Senior Log

1932, June 1933, January 1934, 1935, January 1936, January & June 1937, 1938, June 1939, January &

June 1940, January 1941, June 1942, 1943, January 1945, January 1946, January & June 1948, January

1950, June 1951, 1952, June 1954, 1956, 1959-1961, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1985, 1988 – 1991, 1993, 1996,

1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013

John M. Coleman Junior High School

Comet


Kingsborough Community College

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1966-1967

Kingsborough Community College

Odyssey

1998

Lafayette High School

Legend

1941, January 1943, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1963-1965

Long Island College of Medicine

Lichonian

1948, 1949

Long Island University

Sound


Luis Munoz Marin School (P.S. 314)

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1948, 1966, 1967, 1992

Luis Munoz Marin School (P.S. 314)

1990-2002, 2004, 2005

Dual Language Gifted Academy Magazine

1994

Manual Training High School/John Jay High School

Odd Times [literary magazine]

1899, 1900

Manualite

1911, 1913, 1914

Manual Anvil

1921

Prospect


Math and Science Exploratory School (M.S. 447)

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Vol. 1 1905-1906, Vol. 11 1914-1915

Bound individual years: 1916-1923, 1925–1927, January 1928, 1929-1941, 1942, 1944-1981,

1983-1984, 1986-1988, 1990-1992, 1998–2001, 2007

Unbound copies in document boxes: 1905, 1908-1912, 1916-1927, 1929-1944, 1948-1954

Math and Science Exploratory School (M.S. 447)

2015-2016

Maxwell Teachers Training College

Chalk Marks

1929, January 1933

Midwood High School

Epilog

1942, June 1946, January & June 1947, June 1948, January 1949, 1950, June 1951, 1956, 1957, 1990

Montauk Junior High School

Wigwam


Most Holy Trinity High School

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1936, June 1952

Most Holy Trinity High School

Triad

1957

New Utrecht High School

Comet

January 1932, January 1935, January 1936, 1938, 1939, June 1941, January 1942, January 1948, 1952,

January 1953, 1957, 1965

Packer Collegiate Institute

The Packer Pelican

1976, 1979, 1981

P.S. 193

Live-Wire


Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn

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January 1942

Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn

Polywog

1887, 1888, 1898 - 1901, 1904, 1905, 1908, 1911, 1923, 1952, 1955, 1959, 1962, 1983

Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School

Polyglot

1901-1903, 1905, 1906, 1908-1911, 1913-1916, 1918-1921, 1923-1926, 1929-1931, 1933-1936,

1938-1941, 1943-1946, 1948-1951, 1953-1956, 1958-1976, 1978-1981, 1983-1986, 1988-1991,

1993-2006, 2009-2012

Pratt Institute

Annual

1910-11, 1912

Souvenir

1910-11


Prospect Heights High School

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Prattonia

1932, 1950

Prospect Heights High School

Cardinal

1959-1964

Samuel J. Tilden High School

Senior Classic/Senior Class

1935 - 1938, 1940, January 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1948, 1950, 1967, 1969

Sarah J. Hale Vocational High School

Mannequin

1959

Hale Horizons


School of Journalism and Technology (P.S. 506)

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1960-1963

Gold and Green Handbook

1963

School of Journalism and Technology (P.S. 506)

Be the Difference

2014/15

Seth Low Junior High School

Spectator

1950

Sheepshead Bay High School

Topaz

1961-1967, 1974, 1991

St. Agnes Seminary


St. Ann's School

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1980

The Agnesian

1947

St. Ann's School

1987, 2005, 2006

St. Augustine Diocesan High School

The Lance

1952

St. Edmund Preparatory High School

Canterburian

2002


St. Francis College

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St. Francis College

Franciscan

1957, 1958

St. Francis Preparatory School

San Fran

1946

St. Francis Xavier Academy

Gateway

1957, 1958, 1959

St. John's Preparatory School

Prep Shadows

1941, 1942, 1959-1961, 1964-1966


St. John's University School of Law

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Prep Powwow

June 1942 (Volume 1, Number 1)

St. John's University School of Law

The Liber

1931

Res Gestae

1958

St. John's University College of Business Administration

Closing Entry

1963

St. John's University Teachers College

The Warrior


St. Joseph's College for Women

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1951, 1954

St. Joseph's College for Women

Footprints

1928, 1937, 1939, 1962-1965

St. Joseph’s Commercial High School

Parmentier

1956, 1957

Saint Mary's Hospital School of Nursing

1952

Saint Saviour High School

1952

Thabor


Thomas Jefferson High School

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1958-1961

Thomas Jefferson High School

Flambeau

June 1934

Flashes

1929

Etchings

1930

Soundings

1928

Wings

1928, January 1929

Aurora


William H. Maxwell Vocational High School

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1937, June 1938, January 1940, January 1941, June 1942, January 1943 1945, June 1947, 1949-1951,

1960, 1961, 1963, 1986

Pieces of Eight

June 1927

William H. Maxwell Vocational High School

Crystal

1970, 1973, 1993

Winthrop Junior High School

Winthrop Owl

June 1957

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