The Class Album

What’s in the archive

Every person here has a name and a photograph printed in a source published in 1945 or earlier.

• 63,759School & college yearbooksSeniors, with home streets, activities, classmates and clubs: the original heart of the archive.1904–1945
• 14,828War serviceWWI soldiers killed, wounded or dead of disease, with rank, home town and fate, and the New England aviators of 1914–18.1919–1920
• 6,593Biographical volumesMen of Massachusetts, Men of Progress, county and state biographies: a portrait and a short life for each man.1889–1943
• 2,572Historic portraitsCabinet cards, cartes de visite and studio portraits from Boston Public Library and other collections, named in the catalogue.1837–1937

Explore by town

Yearbooks, town by town. The war rolls and biographical volumes have their own pages above.

Before they were famous All 162 →

A film director, a governor, a composer, a marathon champion, a mathematician — photographed before anyone knew their names.

• Frederick William DallingerMen of Massachusetts, 1903 1903
• Albert I. PrettymanSpringfield College 1906
• John A. KeliherWho's who in State Politics, 1908 (Massachusetts Legislature) 1908
• S. Foster DamonNewton 1910
• John Francis FitzgeraldMen of Boston and New England, 1913 1913
• C. Paul HerfurthNew England Conservatory of Music 1916
• James L. ConradFitchburg 1918
• James Norman HallNew England Aviators, 1914-1918 1919
• Joe KozlowskyCambridge 1919
• Edward A. BaconHarvard College, Class of 1920 (Harvard Nineteen Twenty Class Album) 1920
• Maurice RobertsSomerville 1922
• Ralph B. RogersBoston Latin School 1926
• Clinton E. KnoxNew Bedford 1926
• George ChalmersMedford 1927
• Johnny KelleyArlington 1927
• Don KentNorth Quincy 1935

Families Browse a town →

Brothers and sisters, found because the yearbooks printed their home address. Each family below sent three or more children through the same school.

• The Gilman family

  40 Lee Street, Cambridge · 1917–1929

  Bessie ’17Sarah ’19Eva ’20Ida ’23

• The Curry family

  92 Wendell Street, Cambridge · 1919–1929

  Helen ’19John ’19Anna ’21Frances ’27

• The Guiney family

  2 Hutchinson St, Cambridge · 1920–1931

  Anna ’20Lucy ’22Rose ’26Thomas ’27

• The Sullivan family

  239 Huron Ave, Cambridge · 1920–1930

  Marguerite ’20Daniel ’22Ethel ’24Ethel ’25

• The Lebovich family

  9 Wellington Avenue, Somerville · 1920–1929

  Ethyle ’20Ethyle ’21Hanna ’22Samuel ’28

• The Murray family

  47 Rogers Avenue, Somerville · 1920–1930

  Frank ’20Frank ’21Margaret ’22Helen ’28

• The Cole family

  167 Lowell Street, Somerville · 1920–1931

  Mary ’20James ’22Frank ’25Ann ’29

• The Sullivan family

  51 Reservoir Street, Cambridge · 1922–1928

  Paul ’22Mary ’24Mary ’25Leo ’26

• The Joyce family

  90 Fayerweather Street, Cambridge · 1923–1930

  Helen ’23Anna ’24Ethel ’27Maurice ’29

Clubs & teams

Glee clubs, debating societies, football teams and school papers — every member who listed one in their yearbook entry.

• Glee Club Somerville 711
• G. A. A. Cambridge 522
• G. A. A. Central 487
• Girls' League Brookline 474
• French Club Brookline 460
• Traffic Squad Somerville 440
• Bowling Central 421
• Honor Society New Bedford 409
• History Circle Clinton 395
• Basketball Brockton 369
• Physical Training Somerville 358
• Thrift Association Somerville 329
• Glee Club Central 314
• Poetry Club Somerville 309
• Traffic Squad New Bedford 289
• G. O. High School of Commerce 284
• Bank Somerville 284
• Glee Club Brookline 231
• Hockey Brockton 214
• Dramatics Brookline 213
• Class Day Brookline 208
• Girls' Club Melrose 206
• Basketball Somerville 203
• Radiator Somerville 203
• Intramural Basketball Central 196
• Recorder Central 186
• Tennis Central 185
• National Honor Society Somerville 183
• Football Somerville 182
• Baseball Somerville 182

Group photographs

Teams, clubs and committees, with the faces named from the caption beneath.

• Drama Cast · Cambridge, 1928
• Review Staff · Cambridge, 1928
• Group Photograph · Brookline, 1925
• The Home Economics Club · Cambridge, 1927
• Baseball · Cambridge, 1927
• Group Photograph · Cambridge, 1923
• Klawhowjaha Bjustofe Club · Cambridge, 1927
• Yearbook Committee · Arlington, 1928

Common surnames in the archive

• Smith 715
• Johnson 459
• Sullivan 398
• Brown 386
• Murphy 310
• Anderson 267
• Miller 255
• Jones 250
• Davis 238
• Williams 233
• White 229
• Clark 217
• Allen 201
• Hall 199
• Taylor 186
• Wilson 186
• Cohen 186
• Thompson 185
• Nelson 172
• Walsh 172
• Martin 167
• Moore 164
• Robinson 163
• McCarthy 159
• O'Brien 158
• Collins 154
• Peterson 153
• Perry 147
• King 145
• Baker 141