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English Nationality Room
ca. 1952
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Title
English Nationality Room
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Date
ca. 1952
Identifier
ENCR02UA
Description
Workers use a window to load a column to be installed in the English Nationality Room. Heinz Memorial Chapel can be seen on the left. The English Room, classroom 144, was designed by Albert A. Klimcheck in 16th century Tudor Gothic style, and reflects major aspects of American History: English language and law. It is the largest of the Nationality Rooms and contains a large amount original material from London's House of Commons which was destroyed by bombs during World War II. Each window bears a coat of arms representing an English city, or a famous English person from history. The English room was dedicated November 21, 1952. 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.
Type
still image
Genre
photographs
Subject
Men
University of Pittsburgh
Cathedral of Learning (Pittsburgh, Pa.). Nationality Rooms
Cathedral of Learning (Pittsburgh, Pa.). English Room
Heinz Memorial Chapel (University of Pittsburgh)
Geographic Subjects
Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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
Rights Information
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