lj:
Look at the Mercer Island yearbooks - none can be found.
I would stipulate that none can be found from a source freely available to the public.
I simply can’t believe that every single yearbook was collected and/or destroyed. How many students went to that school? Every book purchased for that year by every 9th-12th grade student just magically disappeared? Even every yearbook for each of the years she went to Mercer suddenly disappears? I just don’t buy it. The key is “freely available to the public”.
And the same thing applies with the publisher. I can still go and get a copy printed of my yearbook despite having graduated over 30 years ago.
Did the yearbook publisher destroy all of their originals? Or do they expect to get paid for a copy or get paid not print any copies?
All I know is that researchers have not been able to locate any existing Mercer Island yearbooks, I didn’t say that none exist in the world. If you have some ideas, why not post your ideas or try to find one yourself? I do not remember all the different ways they tried, but they tried a number of ways to find one; IIRC the public library, school library and perhaps an ad in the paper were tried; I do not know for certain but assume some former students were asked. Maybe someone who knows more might say. I don’t know what you mean about paying/not paying. I don’t know how they would know the publisher without having a copy to look at.