From the depths of the library’s archives, a selection of class photographs from 1857 to 1930 has been digitised and uploaded to the Open Books website, accessible at openbooks.is.ed.ac.uk. The photographs show the students and staff of New College’s past, each of whom make up a part of school’s long history. You may recognise, for example, Principal Robert Rainy, who lends his name to the College’s Rainy Hall, sat front and centre of every photo during his time as principal from 1874 to 1900. And behind Rainy and succeeding principals stand rows of students, ascending the same courtyard steps that today welcome over 400 undergraduate and postgraduate students to the School of Divinity.
New College Library Class Photograph 1923
To find out more about these New College students, use the University’s Historic Alumni database, accessible at collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni
Chloe Elder, New College Library Special Collections Digitisation Intern 2016