This guide describes yearbooks and student-produced newspapers that are available in the University of Iowa Archives, Special Collections Department. RG numbers refer to the described collection's record group number.

Series II and Series III: Indicies The yearbook of the University of Iowa (during the years in question known as the State University of Iowa) was titled the Hawkeye. Most volumes before 1942 included an index, and apparently these indexes were transcribed to 3x5" cards about 1942. This page in turn transcribes into an electronic file the information entered on the cards. Information is entered in the format: Name of group, description. year: page; year; page, etc.

The card catalog was arranged in a single alphabet, mixing descriptions of photographs of individuals and photographs of groups. For ease of use, the descriptions for these two sorts of images have been separated series: Series II is an index of groups appearing in the yearbooks, and Series III is an index of individuals appearing in the yearbook. These are lists alphabetically comprised of group names (e.g., athletic teams, classes (Sophomore, Junior, Senior), fraternities and sororities, and other groups and organizations)

Note that the images described are printed; that is, they are not original photographic prints. Many are relatively small. They can be photographed with screens and filters which will partially remove the underlying pattern of dots of which they are composed, but a print from the resulting negative will be noticeably grainer than a print made from an original photographic negative. They can be enlarged on a photocopier with some success, and they can be scanned, although at high resolutions the underlying dot pattern will again be obvious.

To access the digitized version of our yearbooks collection online, please visit: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/yearbooks