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On the Memories of Liberty CD-ROM is every page of the original
Liberty High School yearbook, plus
a complete index of the 1919 LHS Annual
-- people, places, military units from World War I service, local businesses, even occasionally causes of
death.
to check the index right now. Is an ancestor listed? If
they're not, consider taking a look anyway because of all of the other information
about life in small-town America in 1919.
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A word about yearbooks: In
1919, high school yearbooks were just coming into existence. Not
every school produced them -- in fact, rather few did. The 1919
annual was the very first yearbook ever produced by Liberty High
School. At that time there
wasn't a real formula. This particular volume ambitiously attempts to
bring up-to-date the careers of everyone who graduated from or attended
Liberty High School beginning in 1894 -- where they went, whom they
married, where they worked or went to college, their military
service. This is genealogical source material for a
geographic area about which published genealogical material is sparse, yet
was an area that many families moved through on their way
"somewhere else". You
simply don't see anything like that in high school yearbooks
today. We've
completely indexed it. Full names,
localities, military outfits, colleges and universities, businesses, even
causes of death when they appear in the annual.
Please
to see the Index! |
| A mystery:
If you're interested in the women's movement, or the development of sports
in American high schools, here's a mystery for you.
In the 1919 yearbook there are
two athletic teams: girls' basketball and boys' basketball.
Each team received three pages of coverage. 33 years later, the 1952
Liberty High School yearbook reveals NO athletic teams for girls, but SIX
teams for boys (football, basketball, baseball, track, wrestling, and
golf). Girls can now be cheerleaders.
What happened? During
years that saw cultural phenomena like the Flapper and Rosie the Riveter,
women's sports at Liberty High School declined to the point where all girls
could do was cheer the boys on.
Go figure!! |
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Interested in seeing other
Liberty HS yearbooks? We've got the 1942 and the 1952 LHS yearbooks on our
new
Memories of Liberty, Volume II CD-ROM.
to learn more about it!
Want to see what Liberty High School looks like right now?
to visit the LCS website ... (but don't forget to come back!)
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