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Carthage College
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Kenosha, WI 53140

Digital Yearbook Archives

History 

Although Carthage students assembled a modest “annual” in 1899, 1911 marked the publication of the first official yearbook. The class of 1911 may have hoped that Carthage would publish a yearbook every year, but until 1915 the Crimson Rambler was published bi-annually. Substantial publication gaps also occurred in the 1930s and 1940s, caused in part by the harsh economic times and WWII. The years of 1934-1936 and 1939-1944 are lost to us.

During the years in which Carthage was operating in two locations, both the Carthage, IL and Kenosha campuses created their own yearbooks. When the campuses were consolidated in Wisconsin, the Crimson Rambler and the Sea Gull were merged to form the Driftwood.  The current yearbook continues under the name of Driftwood.

In the spring of 2011, the Staubitz Archives launched a digitization initiative to make 100 years of yearbooks accessible online.  In partnership with ArcaSearch, the Carthage yearbooks were scanned and rendered fully searchable.  The yearbook archive is open to the Carthage community, to alumni, and to the general public.  Celebrate Carthage's history with us!     

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Archives News

165 years on a timeline

Did you know that we had a female Acting President in 1951? Or that during WWII Carthage had a sea plane training base on the Mississippi River? Check out our interactive timeline of Carthage history

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