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Happy new… zoom?

The New Year - poem

Our online image library, Capital Collections has a whizzy new zoom function. Use the magnifier to focus in on favourite pictures and see them in incredible detail. Try out the magnifier on this New Year Greeting card.  Simply click on the image within the image record page and zoom in….

The card is taken from one of a collection of  hand-decorated and lovingly compiled Victorian family photograph albums held by Edinburgh City Libraries, known as the Moray Albums. They belonged to a family called the the Stirling Home-Drummond Moray’s, an aristocratic, well-connected Scottish landowning family. If you’re interested to find out more about how the Scottish landed gentry lived, take a look at the beautiful 2nd volume which has been made available as an exhibition on Capital Collections.