Czechoslovak Nationality Room

March 7, 1939

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Title
Czechoslovak Nationality Room
Date
March 7, 1939
Identifier
CZCR07.UA
Description
Czechoslovak Committee member Lydia Ildza places Committee Records in the shrine of the Czechoslovak room during the classroom's dedication ceremony as Chancellor John G. Bowman and Jan Masaryk look on. The Czechoslovak room emphasizes education, leadership and a love of nature. It was designed by Dr. Bohumil Slama. In the back of the room is the proclamation that King Charles the IV issued when he created Prague's Charles University in 1348. The murals near the windows depict animals and plants interacting, which were painted by artists Karel and Marie Svolinski from Prague. The Czechoslovak room was dedicated March 7, 1939. This room, along with twenty five other Nationality Rooms all with different architectural styles, was conceived in the 1920s by sociologist Ruth Crawford Mitchell as a means of linking the university with the immigrant culture of the steel working families.
Place of Publication
Oakland
Type
still image
Subject
Nationality Rooms.
Geographic Subjects
Oakland
Source
University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs, 1884-present
Collection
Pitt Photographs
University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs
Pitt Nationality Rooms
Pitt Campus Life
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh
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