Wow! UNC Library has put some serious history online, with its announcement last month that the Yackety-Yack, the UNC yearbook, has been digitized from 1901-1966. The Hellenian has been digitized from 1890-1900 as well.

You can browse through each of the digitized volumes at http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/uncyearbooks.html. Each yearbook has its own page at the Internet Archive, where you can read them online or download them in a variety of formats, including PDF, DjVu, or even Kindle!

So what will you find in these digitized yearbooks? I poked around a bit and found Andy Griffith in a 1947 Phi Mu Alpha picture, and hey! There's Lawrence Ferlinghetti in the 1941 yearbook (though he's going by the name Lawrence Ferling, as he did until he published his first book of poems in 1955.) When you read each yearbook online, you can search it by keyword or name, so looking at these yearbooks is good for genealogy too.

Can't get enough UNC history? You might also want to check out digitized copies of The Carolina Alumni Review, which are available from 1912-1924.

Thanks to UNC Libraries for putting together such a great collection!