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Archives Exhibits

New Upper SchoolThe St. Paul'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's school. Take a few minutes to browse the exhibits using the links below and discover something new from something old in the SPS Archives collection.


The Rectors of St. Paul's School 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’s School.

The Roll of Honor: St. Paul's School in the Great War presents images and texts reproduced from the St. Paul's School Alumni Association publication St. Paul's School in the Great War: 1914-1918. This online exhibit consists of PDF files of short biographies for the forty eight St. Paul's Alumni who gave their lives in World War I.

The Roll of Honor: St. Paul's School in the Second World War presents images and texts reproduced from the St. Paul's School Alumni Association publication St. Paul's School in the Second World War. This online exhibit consists of PDF files of short biographies for the one hundred and four St. Paul's Alumni who gave their lives in the Second World War.

The SPS Historic Postcards 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. This exhibit was created by scanning postcards in the SPS Archives and others loaned by friends of St. Paul's School.

The SPS Sesquicentennial Exhibit is a series of eight online exhibits that document the life of St. Paul's School from its Founding to the present day. It was created with photographs, documents, and artifacts from the St. Paul's School Archives, and text from various St. Paul's School publications dealing with School history.

The Vanished Buildings of St. Paul's School is an exhibit created with images from the School's photographic archives selectively documenting the vanished buildings of St. Paul's School.

The Architecture of St. Paul's School and the Design of Ohrstrom Library is an eleven-part essay by Robert A. M. Stern detailing the architectual history of St. Paul'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 Alumni Horae.

Address by August Heckscher '32 to the Millville Society, 2-1-96. Reproduces the full-text of his address.