The Record
Penn's Undergraduate Yearbook

The first published undergraduate yearbooks at the University of Pennsylvania were produced by the Class of 1865, as sophomores in 1863 and then as seniors in 1865. This yearbook, entitled "The Record," has appeared annually since 1867. A growing selection of these yearbooks from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are available on-line, in their entirety, in PDF (Portable Document File) format. View, search and print these PDF files with Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Before the Class of 1865, some classes are known to have created "class books," each a handwritten record of class members kept by one person in the class. The class book of the Class of 1852 was presented to the University by William Lehman Wells, A. B. 1852, in 1877. It survives to this day in the University Archives. It also can be viewed online in non-searchable PDF format.

Twentieth Century Yearbooks available on line:

1960	1950	1940	1930
1920	1910	1900

Nineteenth Century Yearbooks available on line:

1890-1899 1890	1880-1889 1880 1887	1870-1879 1876 1875 1874 1873 1872 1871 1870	1863-1869 1869 1868 1867 1865 1863