The Skull & Bones engraving used by Yale was the first engraving used by Wesleyan. It was published in the Wesleyan Olla Podrida. This was only for the two years when the Wesleyan group had not yet declared its independence from Yale and became separate organization.

Naturally, the first yearbook engraving used after the Skull & Bones of Yale was the Skull & Keys, the emblem of the society. This was used at Wesleyan and the Wesleyan-chartered chapters.

Some of the early chapters used a small skull like this in yearbook pages. Under the theta, nu, and epsilon across the forehead is the chapter letter. This example is from Syracuse University and the chapter letter is beta. The University of Rochester used a similar skull with a forehead epsilon.

Many chapters used versions of the chasm scene, and this was the first yearbook plate that could be considered a Society-wide engraving.

This example was from Cornell, but it was used by California and many other chapters. It was always customized significantly for the use of each chapter.

This is the engraving used in the early days of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; similar to others of its era above.

This imp was the favorite of the Kenyon College chapter, and they used him for several years.

This was the first of the four most typical steelplate engravings used by the chapters.

There is no real pattern to which chapters used which engraving. It seems to have been a case of whim.

This engraving is the one probably most completely in line with the spirit of the Society. It was also most favored with chapters that remained true to the spirit of the society in later crises.

Both this engraving and the ‘circle of seven devils’ engraving below are often seen printed in green or red ink.

This engraving is one of the four most used, and perhaps the most common of all.

It is a representation of the bottom circle of hell from Dante’s Inferno.

This engraving is clearly based on one particular style of pin. It was used at the University of Minnesota.

This skull was only used by a small number of chapters and is very rare. It is good enough that it ought to have been more used.

Typically, this engraving is found at various New York universities.

This engraving is the third of the four most commonly used. These typically were not from legitimate chapters, but this is not a hard rule.

This also was printed in red.

This is a very rare yearbook engraving. This example is from Muhlenberg College. There may have been more usage of this image in the South.

This is the fourth of the most common yearbook plates. This one is a little later than the other three, and is probably the second most common. It also was printed in green and red.

This image tended to be used by legitimate chapters in the first two decades of the twentieth century. It is always very popular.