Dr Tristram Clarke
Members of the Association of Registrars of Scotland, and three members of staff, outside New Register House, Edinburgh, 23 April 1932. (National Records of Scotland)
The remarkable photograph above captures a moment in the long transformation of the all-male world of the Scottish registrars into one in which women predominate. The scene in 1932 is the visit to New Register House, Edinburgh, by members of the Association of Registrars of Scotland (AROS), who came to see the Hollerith tabulating machine being used by the registrar general’s staff to process the data gathered in the latest census of 1931.
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