first edition
1943 · San Francisco
by Ansbro, George, editor '45, '46 [other years uncredited]
San Francisco: Published by the Students in Journalism, Polytechnic High School, 1943. Four issues in unbroken series: highschool yearbooks in the usual format, coated paperstock with vignette photoportraits, local ads, hardbound, these somewhat beat-up and slightly musty, all belonged to one Paul Johansson. Each has a plethora of signatures, boilerplate salutations and juvenile whimsey: on a laid-in dance program nipples are sketched onto a young lady, find a blackface cartoon, and a Walt Baptiste beefcake ad is autographed as "Bill Bugger". Polytechnic student body included Chinese Americans, the two Ow brothers signing one of these items.
(Inventory #: 225544)