Main library seeks Cleveland High School yearbooks

You may or may not be aware that the Main Cleveland Public Library maintains a collection of old Cleveland High School Yearbooks. Located in the Social Science Department in the new Louis Stokes Wing on the fifth floor the task is currently headed by librarian Dave Furyes. Eighteen of Collinwood High School’s oldest issues dating from -1928 to 1952 have been digitized and are accessible online through the library’s website, cpl.org. You need just click on the Research category and go to the Digital Gallery. Below is the total listing of Collinwood schools and their issues they currently hold in their collection.

- Collinwood: 1928-31, 1943-45, 1947, 1950-52, & 1983 (JAN Class 1946-52)

- St. Joseph: 1955-56, 1958, 1960, 1962-64, 1966-81, 1983-89

- Villa Angela: 1947, 1963-65, 1974, 1976-78, 1981-84, 1986-90

- Villa Angela-St. Joseph: 1991-97, 1999, 2002, & 2003

If you should have or know of any of the missing issues, please consider donating them to this effort to fill the gaps in the collection and helping preserve this area of our neighborhood’s history.

Cleveland Public Library, 325 Superior Ave., Cleveland, OH  44114,  (216) 623-2860

William McCulloch is an amateur local historian.