{"id":105,"date":"2010-09-24T20:08:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T20:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives"},"modified":"2016-05-02T10:06:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T15:06:11","slug":"st-pauls-school-archives-exhibits","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/st-pauls-school-archives-exhibits","title":{"rendered":"St. Paul&#8217;s School Archives Exhibits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/upper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-152\" title=\"upper\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/upper.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"103\" \/><\/a>The St. Paul&#8217;s School Archives offers several online themed exhibits drawn from the wealth of materials housed in the collection. Archive exhibits cover a full range of subjects from throughout the long and interesting history of St. Paul&#8217;s school. Take a few minutes to browse the exhibits using the links below and discover something new about something old in the St. Paul&#8217;s School Archives collection.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/library.sps.edu\/06archives\/stern\/index.html\" target=\"_self\"><span class=\"bold\">The Architecture of St. Paul&#8217;s School and the Design of Ohrstrom Library<\/span><\/a> is an eleven-part essay by Robert A. M. Stern detailing the architectural history of St. Paul&#8217;s School with a special focus on the design and building of Ohrstrom Library. This article was first published in the Spring and Autumn 1992 issues of the <em><span class=\"italic\">Alumni Horae<\/span><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/?dc_exhibit=archival_gems\"><span class=\"bold\">Archival Gems: The Gem Tintype Albums of St. Paul&#8217;s School<\/span><\/a> explores two related albums of miniature portraits of St. Paul&#8217;s School students from the late 1860s.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The Early Libraries of St. Paul's School\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/archives\/category\/libraries-of-st-pauls-school_04\" target=\"_self\"><span class=\"bold\">The Early Libraries of St. Paul&#8217;s School<\/span><\/a> features photographs of the different locations that served as libraries at SPS leading up to the building of Ohrstrom Library.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The Form Plaques of St. Paul's School: John Gregory Wiggins\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/archives\/category\/the-form-plaques-of-st-pauls-school-wiggins_03\" target=\"_self\"><span class=\"bold\">The Form Plaques of St. Paul&#8217;s School: John Gregory Wiggins<\/span><\/a> is a collection of images featuring the Form plaques on display in the Coit Upper Dining Hall.\u00a0 Descriptions of the symbols used in the plaques written by the carver, John Gregory Wiggins, accompany the images.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Formmates and Friends\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/archives\/category\/formmates_and_friends\"><span class=\"bold\">Formmates and Friends: The Early Cabinet Card Portraits of St. Paul&#8217;s School<\/span><\/a> features a selection of images from an album of student and faculty portraits from the 1860s through the 1880s.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"In Celebration of Cricket\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/archives\/category\/celebration_of_cricket_05\"><span class=\"bold\">In Celebration of Cricket<\/span><\/a> features selected photographs that have been gathered to provide an introduction to the history of the sport of cricket at St. Paul\u2019s School as well as a context for the enduring tradition of Cricket Holiday.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"A New Chapel for St. Paul's School online exhibit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/archives\/category\/new_chapel_early_photographs\"><span class=\"bold\">A New Chapel For St. Paul&#8217;s School: Early Photographs of the Chapel of St. Peter and St. Paul<\/span><\/a> features a selection of some of the earliest photographs of the New Chapel from the archives collection.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Ohrstrom Library Celebrates 25 Years\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/?dc_exhibit=ohrstrom-library-celebrates-25-years\"><span class=\"bold\">Ohrstrom Library Celebrates 25 Years<\/span><\/a> is a look back at the planning and construction that brought Ohrstrom Library into being.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/archives\/category\/places-of-invention-2_02\" target=\"_self\"><span class=\"bold\">Places of Invention: Science and Mathematics at St. Paul&#8217;s School<\/span><\/a> reflects back upon the places that have served the study of science and mathematics so well throughout the School\u2019s history.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/archives\/category\/rectors_exhibit_01\" target=\"_self\"><span class=\"bold\">The Rectors of St. Paul&#8217;s School<\/span><\/a> presents the succession of Rectors through photographs and short biographies, and serves as a brief introduction to the fascinating history of leadership at St. Paul\u2019s School.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/library.sps.edu\/06archives\/war\/ww1\/ww1_index.html\" target=\"_self\"><span class=\"bold\">The Roll of Honor: St. Paul&#8217;s School in the Great War<\/span><\/a> presents images and texts reproduced from the St. Paul&#8217;s School Alumni Association publication <span class=\"italic\">St. Paul&#8217;s School in the Great War: 1914-1918.<\/span> This online exhibit consists of PDF files of short biographies for the forty eight St. Paul&#8217;s Alumni who gave their lives in World War I.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/library.sps.edu\/06archives\/war\/ww2\/ww2_index.html\" target=\"_self\"><span class=\"bold\">The Roll of Honor: St. Paul&#8217;s School in the Second World War<\/span><\/a> presents images and texts reproduced from the St. Paul&#8217;s School Alumni Association publication <span class=\"italic\">St. Paul&#8217;s School in the Second World War.<\/span> This online exhibit consists of PDF files of short biographies for the one hundred and four St. Paul&#8217;s Alumni who gave their lives in the Second World War.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/library.sps.edu\/06archives\/HistoricPostcards\/pc_gallery1.html\" target=\"_self\"><span class=\"bold\">The SPS Historic Postcards Exhibit<\/span><\/a> presents images of St. Paul&#8217;s School from the late 1800s to the present. The scenes and buildings depicted by these postcards provide glimpses of the School as it has grown and changed over the decades. Images of vanished buildings, unfamiliar perspectives on buildings still in service, and of the School&#8217;s changing landscape (for example, the School&#8217;s stately elm trees from the days before Dutch Elm disease) offer an evocative mixture of the familiar and the unfamiliar, and invite us to view the School today with a fresh perspective. This exhibit was created by scanning postcards in the SPS Archives and others loaned by friends of St. Paul&#8217;s School.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/library.sps.edu\/06archives\/sesquicentennial\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"bold\">The SPS Sesquicentennial Exhibit<\/span><\/a> is a series of eight online exhibits that document the life of St. Paul&#8217;s School from its Founding to the present day. It was created with photographs, documents, and artifacts from the St. Paul&#8217;s School Archives, and text from various St. Paul&#8217;s School publications dealing with School history.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The T. Mitchell Hastings Album of 1890\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/archives\/category\/hastings_album_1890\"><span class=\"bold\">The T. Mitchell Hastings Album of 1890<\/span><\/a> is based on the personal photo album donated to the Archives by T. Mitchell Hastings, Form of 1894, and features early candid photographs of student life at St. Paul&#8217;s School.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/library.sps.edu\/06archives\/vanishedbuildings\/index.html\" target=\"_self\"><span class=\"bold\">The Vanished Buildings of St. Paul&#8217;s School<\/span><\/a> is an exhibit created with images from the School&#8217;s photographic archives selectively documenting the vanished buildings of St. Paul&#8217;s School.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Paul&#8217;s School Archives offers several online themed exhibits drawn from the wealth of materials housed in the collection. 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