This series contains the student yearbooks: these are published every year and include information about the students enrolled and the activities students engage in such as athletic teams, debating societies, publications, performing arts groups, fraternities and other social organizations. Early yearbooks provide only lists of names. For earlier "yearbooks" with photographs of individual students, please see the Class Photograph Albums Collection, 1956-1902. Please note that yearbooks for the CUIMC health sciences campus schools (College of Physicians & Surgeons, College of Dental Medicine, College of Pharmacy, School of Nursing) are archived at the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library. The School of Public Health and Administrative Medicine yearbook holdings are available online. The volumes of the Columbia Optometrist, the yearbook of the School of Optometry, are available from offsite storage.
Barnard College yearbooks, the Annual and later the Mortarboard, are available from the Barnard Digital Collections. For the Law School, please contact the Special Collections Librarian at the Arthur W. Diamond Law Library. For Teachers College and additional Horace Mann School yearbooks, please visit contact the Special Collections librarians at the Gottesman Library.
Facebook is the more common name of the freshman student directory. This publication is similar to a yearbook with photographs of the individual students, short biographical sketches (high school and hometown), and campus directory information; but it is created to familiarize new students with their fellow classmates when they are still relatively new to campus. The date on the cover can refer to the date of publication, that is, the year when students arrived; but it can refer to the future class graduating year: the Class of 1983 facebook was published in fall 1979. The earlier volumes feature only the Columbia College freshmen, but starting in 1973, Engineering students are included and starting in 1979, Barnard students. The majority of the volumes in this series feature undergraduate students but there is a small selection of facebooks from the School of International and Public Affairs from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, with students in their first and second year in the MIA and MPA programs. All volumes are organized chronologically. Please note that the School of Journalism also used to publish facebooks and those can be found in the
Graduate School of Journalism Facebooks, 1950-2008.
Freshman Directories or Facebooks, 1954-2008
The facebooks or freshman directories at Columbia College started in 1950 for the Class of 1954. Students were photographed on campus and the directory was later compiled and published during their freshman year (in this case, it was actually published in 1951, during their second semester). Soon after that, the facebooks were published by the yearbook staff. For the first 20 years, the year on the cover of the facebook refers to the graduating class year (1954-1975). This means that the 1975 facebook features students who entered in the fall of 1970. Starting in 1984, the facebooks are identified by the year they were published. This means that the 1984 facebook features the students of the Class of 1988. The years in between, the 1970s and early 1980s, vary so the information on the cover and the graduating class are included below. The earlier volumes feature only the Columbia College freshmen, but starting in 1973, Engineering students are included and starting in 1979, Barnard students.
Volume CP1 C738 1954
1954
The facebooks or freshman directories at Columbia College started in 1950 for the Class of 1954. For the first 20 years, the year on the cover of the facebook refers to the graduating class year (1954-1975). This means that, for example, the 1975 facebook features students who entered in the fall of 1970.
Volume CP1 C738 1955
1955
Volume CP1 C738 1959
1959
Volume CP1 C738 1960
1960
Volume CP1 C738 1962
1962
Volume CP1 C738 1963
1963
Volume CP1 C738 1964
1964
Volume CP1 C738 1965
1965
Volume CP1 C738 1966
1966
Volume CP1 C738 1967
1967
Volume CP1 C738 1968
1968
Volume CP1 C738 1969
1969
Volume CP1 C738 1970
1970
Volume CP1 C738 1971
1971
Volume CP1 C738 1972
1972
Volume CP1 C738 1973
1973
Volume CP1 C738 1974
1974
Volume CP1 C738 1975
1975
Volume CP1 C738 1977
Class of 1977, 1973
Facebooks, until the Student Directory 1975, used to feature the students by their class year (Class of 1975) but were published in their freshman year (1971). In the 1970s and 1980s, there are many missing years and the dating/naming convention varies. This volume is for the Class of 1977, who entered in the fall of 1973.
Volume CP1 C738 1977
1977
This volume is for the Class of 1981, who entered in the fall of 1977.
Volume CP1 C738 1982
Class of 1982, 1978
This volume is for the Class of 1982, who entered in 1978. There is no facebook for the Class of 1986, who entered in 1982.
Volume CP1 C738 1983
Class of 1983, 1979
This volume is for the Class of 1983, who entered in 1979. There is no facebook for the Class of 1979, who entered in 1975.
Volume CP1 C738 1980
1980
This volume is for the Class of 1984, who entered in 1980. There is no facebook for the Class of 1980, who entered in 1976.
Volume CP1 C738 1983
1983
Starting in 1983, the facebooks are identified by the year they were published. This means that, for example, the 1983 facebook features the students of the Class of 1987.
Volume CP1 C738 1984
1984
Volume CP1 C738 1985
1985
Volume CP1 C738 1986
1986
Volume CP1 C738 1987
1987
Volume CP1 C738 1988
1988
Volume CP1 C738 1989
1989
Volume CP1 C738 1990
1990
Volume CP1 C738 1991
1991
Volume CP1 C738 1992
1992
Volume CP1 C738 1993
1993
Volume CP1 C738 1994
1994
Volume CP1 C738 1995
1995
Volume CP1 C738 1996
1996
Volume CP1 C738 1997
1997
Volume CP1 C738 1998
1998
Volume CP1 C738 1999
1999
Volume CP1 C738 2000
2000
Volume CP1 C738 2001
2001
Volume CP1 C738 2002
2002
Volume CP1 C738 2003
2003
Volume CP1 C738 2004
2004
Volume CP1 C738 2005
2005
Volume CP1 C738 2006
2006
Volume CP1 C738 2007
2007
Volume CP1 C738 2008
2008
School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) facebooks, 1987-1994
This is a small collection of facebooks from the School of International and Public Affairs from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, with students in their first and second year in the MIA and MPA programs.
Samuel A. Blatchford's history of the Class of 1867 was the first published "class history." A class history summarized the class's progress and adventures during their four years at Columbia. These are sometimes called class books, class histories, and even senior year books. These volumes can also include student lists (e.g., student organization rosters), commencement speeches, class poems and songs, biographical sketches of individual class members, and, in some, photographs. Not all classes have a dedicated volume. For some classes, there are also the minute books kept by the class secretary, Class Day programs and invitations, class directories, reunion or anniversary editions, etc. Volumes are organized by graduating class and chronologically.
Class of 1861
Class of 1862
Class of 1867
Class of 1871
Class of 1872
Class of 1873
Class of 1874
Class of 1877
Class of 1882
Class of 1883
Volume CTR E831
Class Day exercises and the valedictory, 1883
Volume CTR E832
Record of the Class of 1883, Columbia College, from graduation to June 13, 1894, 1885
Volume CTR E833
Class of eighty-three, Arts and Mines, 1883-1908, twenty-fifth anniversary celebration, 1908
Volume CTR E837
Eighty-three; a twenty-fifth anniversary poem by John Kendrick Bangs, 1908
Volume CTR E834
A history of the class of eighteen hundred and eighty-three of Columbia College, Arts, Mines, and Political Science from graduation to May 27, 1908, 1911
Volume CTR E835
A history of the class of eighteen hundred and eighty-three of Columbia College, Arts and Mines, comprising of the years 1908-1923, 1923
(A.V. Williams Jackson, Arts, and J. Parke Channing, Mines)
Volume CTR E836
The eighth history of the class of eighteen hundred and eighty-three of Columbia College, School of Arts, comprising the years 1924-1933., 1933
(A.V. Williams Jackson, historian of the class since freshman year. Prepared for the fiftieth anniversary of graduation day.)
Class of 1884
Class of 1885
Class of 1886
Class of 1888
Class of 1889
Class of 1890
Class of 1891
Class of 1892
Class of 1893
Class of 1894
Class of 1895
Class of 1898
Class of 1899
Volume CTR E99
Class book of the class of '99 of Columbia College, Columbia University, 1899
(George S. Hellman, Ernest N. Cardozo, Theophilus Parsons, Barnard M.K. Ernst, Hans W. Zinsser, John S. Harrison, Frank S. Hackett)
Volume CTR E991
The five-year book of the class of '99, Columbia College, 1904
Class of 1900
Class of 1901
Class of 1902
Class of 1903
Class of 1904
Class of 1905
Class of 1906
Class of 1907
Class of 1908
Class of 1909
Class of 1910
Class of 1911
Class of 1912
Class of 1913
Class of 1914
Class of 1915
Class of 1916
Class of 1917
Volume CTR F17
Fifteenth anniversary record of the Columbia Class of 1917 (College, Engineering, Journalism), 1932
(Harry W. Caygill, Clarence E. Lovejoy, Joseph G. Pringle, Joseph H. Riseley)
Volume CTR F172 1962
Columbia College, Engineering, Architecture, Journalism forty-fifth anniversary biographical directory, 1962
Class of 1918
Class of 1920
Class of 1921
Class of 1923
Class of 1924
Class of 1938
Class of 1971
Graduate School of Journalism Reunions