Lisa Laughy March 2nd, 2010
Ohrstrom Library is pleased to announce the addition of a new archives online exhibit: The Rectors of St. Paul’s School.
Since its founding in 1856, St. Paul’s School is fortunate to have enjoyed strong leadership in its Rectors. The Rectors exhibit in the Archives section of Ohrstrom Library’s website presents the succession of these leaders through photographs and short biographies, and serves as a brief introduction to the fascinating history of leadership at St. Paul’s School.
Much of the text and perspectives shared in the brief biographies that accompany photographs of the Rectors were drawn directly from two authoritative and well-loved volumes about St. Paul’s School: A brief history of St. Paul’s School, 1856-1996 by August Heckscher (located in Ohrstrom at: 373 Sa2H) and St. Paul’s School, 1855 – 1934 by Arthur Stanwood Pier (located in Ohrstrom at: 373 Sa2). In addition to reading these two volumes, you can find even more fascinating detail on each of the Rectors by searching the Alumni Horae digital archive, accessible online by clicking HERE.
Tags: Archives, archives exhibit, Rector, Rectors, St. Paul's School
Lisa Laughy May 15th, 2009
Lisa Laughy - Archives Assistant
The Historic Postcard online exhibit has now been updated to reflect the redesign of the Ohrstrom Library website. Originally created in 2006, the exhibit has a new look as well as some new features.
Here is a description of the exhibit excerpted from the “About” page:
The SPS Historical Postcard exhibit presents images of St. Paul’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’s changing landscape (for example, the School’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.
The exhibit contains 79 postcard images gathered from the SPS Archives and loaned by friends of St. Paul’s School. It includes individual pages for each postcard and a slideshow of all 79 postcard images. Images are of vistas of years past, including familiar as well as “vanished” buildings.
Read more about the Postcard Exhibit HERE.
Access the Postcard Exhibit Galleries and Slideshow HERE.
Tags: Archives, archives exhibit, History, Ohrstrom Library, postcards, St. Paul's School
Lisa Laughy January 15th, 2009
Lisa Laughy – Archives Assistant
Ohrstrom Library marks the upcoming Martin Luther King, Jr. Day remembrance with a look into the St. Paul’s School Archives. SPS Archivist, David Levesque has assembled a display of books about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement combined with related Archives materials from the history of St. Paul’s. The display is on view in the Baker Reading Room starting today and will be available through the end of the month. Be sure to give yourself a few minutes to look over the materials on display and see how the day has been observed at SPS in years past.
Tags: Archives, archives exhibit, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King Jr. Day, St. Paul's School
Lisa Laughy November 10th, 2008
Lisa Laughy -Archives Assistant
A new St. Paul’s School Archives online exhibit has been created making two publications available to read online through the Ohrstrom Library Website. The Roll of Honor: St. Paul’s School in the Great War and The Roll of Honor: St. Paul’s School in World War II reproduces two out-of-print and hard to find books originally published by the SPS Alumni Association: St. Paul’s School in the Great War (published in 1926) and St. Paul’s School in the Second World War (published in 1950). The books contain short biographies of St. Paul’s Alumni who fought and gave their lives in the two World Wars. The online exhibit contains direct scans of the pages from the books which have been converted into PDF files for easy reading online. The two exhibits together contain one hundred and fifty two short biographies of St. Paul’s Alumni.
Visit the online exhibit:
The Roll of Honor: St. Paul’s School in the Great War, 1914-1918
The Roll of Honor: St. Paul’s School in the Second World War
Tags: Alumni Association, Archives, archives exhibit, St. Paul School, St. Paul's School in the Great War, St. Paul's School in World War II, World War I, World War II, World War II Seminar, WW I, WW II
