Matched two-volume hardcover set of the official University of Chicago yearbooks:

• 1925 – Cap and Gown, Vol. XXX

• 1926 – Cap and Gown, Vol. XXXI

These volumes document students, faculty, fraternities, athletics, organizations, and campus life at the University of Chicago during the mid-1920s.

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🔍 Notable Research Detail

Cornelius B. Osgood is listed as a Freshman in the 1926 volume on page 213. He later became a published anthropologist whose work included studies of China, Hong Kong, and Indigenous cultures of North America, making this an early primary-source academic record of his university years.

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📚 Contents Include

• Student portraits by class year

• Faculty and university administration

• Fraternities and campus organizations

• Athletics and student life

• Period Chicago advertisements

• Name indexes for research and genealogy

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⚠️ Condition

Original hardcover bindings with normal age-related wear.

Light rubbing to covers and spines; interiors complete, bound, and legible with expected toning.

No modern reprints. Original 1925–1926 volumes.

Please review all photos carefully — they are part of the description.

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🎓 Ideal For

• University of Chicago alumni & families

• Genealogists and academic researchers

• Fraternity / Greek-life historians

• Institutional or library collections

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