- Yearbooks date back all the way to the roman empire. A group of men who had finished their military training, had their names inscribed on a slab along with years. This is not like yearbooks today, but it is the same concept as modern yearbooks.
- The Boston Latin School of boys created their own version of yearbooks. They had a scrapbook type book with mementos and other findings like dried flowers to decorate this yearbook. Students would exchange signatures and notes in these books. This was their way of documenting their year in a book to keep.
- Yale was on of the first schools to create an official yearbook. George Warren found a way to create an abundance of pictures for students to by which was also used as school pictures for students in their yearbooks.