Back to the Glomerata section, where I share the covers of all of the yearbooks from Auburn, my undergraduate alma mater. The one I’m showing you here is the 1904 edition, which has been in my collection for a while. But if you click this book’s cover you can see the new one, the 1914 Glom.
So check out the 1914 cover, when Woodrow Wilson was the president and Emmet O’Neal was the governor. Across the state lawmakers and the University of Alabama were playing political games that would cripple Auburn for years. Robert Goddard started building rockets and patented two designs that would be crucial to spaceflight. The air conditioner was patented. The crossword puzzle had just been invented, Ford’s assembly line was up to speed and the Panama Canal was opening. Hydroelectricity was just beginning to flex its muscle in the state. There were 2.1 million people in the Alabama then, about 32,000 in the county. Auburn had just over 1,400 people. World War I was just months away.
Anyway, you can walk through all the covers if you start here. For a detailed look at selected volumes, you might enjoy this link. Here is the university’s official collection.
