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Boston Public Library Digitizes Salem High School's Yearbooks
The yearbooks are on Archive.org, meaning your kids can now find all those embarrassing high school photos you have been hiding from them.
SALEM, MA -- Salem High School alums who thought they were safe because they graduated before the Internet forever preserved every bad outfit and hair decision they made as teens are in trouble. Salem is one of about 140 Massachusetts that is having its high school yearbooks digitized by the Boston Public Library and preserved forever for snooping kids and friends on Archive.org.
Earlier this week, the Boston Globe reported that the library had offered Massachusetts communities free digitization of up to 15,000 pages of content. Many communities responded by sending their yearbooks, which librarians say are some of their most popular holdings, and the holdings most prone to vandalism.
Currently, Archive.org has Salem High School yearbooks covering graduating classes from 1937 to 2015. That means a lot of people who thought those embarrassing photos and superlatives were safely tucked away in a box in the attic are now prone to ridicule.
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Image from the 1979 Salem High School yearbook via Archive.org.
Browse Salem High School yearbooks on Archive.org. See the Boston Globe article on the digitization process.
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