Ancestry.com is allowing free access to their online collection of high school yearbooks and it's a pretty interesting stroll through the past. The images below were taken from 1921 Ohio annual:
With a femme fatale name like "Mercedes Marr" how could she be otherwise?
You can tell a lot about an age in its advertising. Now milk "does a body good". We've retired nationalism and even patriotism for individualism.
"The paper that...is read." Because only Republicans were apparently readers back then.
Who knew that "there is witchery in Kodakery!"
The books cost 45 cents! Outrageous...
I think Marg could handle a few of the male persuasion too...
There's a lyricism to the high school entries that would likely be found on a college level now. It's as if, in order to shrink the average career length and thus provide more jobs, a college degree is what a high school degree was back then, and post-grad will soon to be what an undergrad degree was in the '80s.
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