Yearbooks

Yearbooks are a great source of information for genealogy researchers, as well as for people that are interested in the history of education, social life and customs, graphic design, and local history. Photographs of individual students, administrators, and faculty members and information about student clubs and achievements provide researchers a look into the lives of local people as individuals and as a group.
The student drawings and other design components show us the aesthetics of the period during which they were created. Yearbooks also offer valuable information about local businesses through the advertisements printed in them.

A complete list of our collection of yearbooks can be found here (updated September 2013). Our yearbook collection is slowly growing! We're always looking for more yearbooks from Schenectady County public and private schools, from elementary school through college. Please contact the Librarian, Melissa Tacke, by phone at 518-374-0263, option 3, or by email at librarian@schenectadyhistorical.org, if you are interested in donating yearbooks.

Below are just a few images from yearbooks in our collection.

Central Park Intermediate School yearbook Scrip, January 1925.
The school also published a literary magazine of the same name.

Photograph of the girls' basketball team at Woestina High School in Rotterdam Junction from The Woestinian, 1931.

The Japanese theme of the June 1917 Schenectady High School yearbook (SHUCIS)
differs from the standard cover for other years of the era; covers usually featured a simple
design and image of the school seal. SHUCIS was also the school literary magazine.

Advertisements from the Schenectady Savings Bank, Walker's Pharmacy, Tilly, and the Alling
Rubber Company from the 1911 Schenectady High School SHUCIS. Both the literary magazine
and the yearbook contain several pages of advertisements.

Whimsical drawings related to students at Schenectady Vocational High School printed in The Anvo, 1938.
These drawings, attributed to "JL," were drawn by James Lemmie, a student in the commercial art course of the school.

Photograph of the editorial staff of the 1905 SHUCIS.

Public School Yearbook Collection

Historical Note:
This is a collection of Schenectady-area public high school yearbooks dated between 1908 and 1969.  The first Schenectady high school, Nott Terrace High School, was opened in 1904. The school closed in 1957 upon completion of a  new school building, Linton High School.  Linton High School, along Mont Pleasant High School, which opened in 1930, served as the district's two high schools until they were consolidated in 1992 to form Schenectady High School.  The Mont Pleasant High School building subsequently reopened as a middle school.

For more information about the history of public education in Schenectady prior to Nott Terrace High School, see Jeanette G. Neisuler's online book, The History of Education in Schenectady, 1661-62---1961-62. 

Description of the Collection:
Through the years the historical society has received generous donations of both public and private school yearbooks.  This is a listing of the public school yearbooks available to view in our collection.  

Nott Terrace High School/Schenectady High School (Formerly Union Classical Institute)

Years open: 1904-1957

  "SHUCIS"

   Printed in Jan and June of each year

   Years available: 1908-1932, 1935, with gaps

SHUCIS, 1914

SHUCIS, 1914

"The Terracian"

Years available: 1932-1957, (missing 1944, '48-'53, '55)

The Terracian, 1933

The Terracian, 1933

Mont Pleasant High School

Years open: 1930-1992

"Montaneer"

 Years available: 1933-1938, '43, '44, '51, '54, '55, '57, '58, '61, '67.

Montaneer, 1937

Montaneer, 1937

Linton High School

Years open: 1958-1992

"Lintonaire"

Years available: 1958, 1969

Lintonaire, 1969

Lintonaire, 1969