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Pitt Honorary Degree Reception

1950

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Pitt Honorary Degree Reception
  • Title
  • Pitt Honorary Degree Reception
  • Date
  • 1950
  • Identifier
  • CZCR29.UA
  • Description
  • Judge Sara Soffel and Dr. Alice G. Masaryk receive Honorary Degrees from the University of Pittsburgh. Judge Soffel was the first female law student at the University of Pittsburgh and the first female juror in Pennsylvania. Dr. Masaryk, the daughter of Czechoslovakian President Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, was a sociologist and member of Czechoslovakian parliament. She emigrated to the United States and resided in Chicago after the death of her brother Jan Masaryk in 1948.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
    photographic prints
    gelatin silver prints
  • Subject
  • Persons
    Masaryk, Alice Garrigue, 1879-1966
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs, 1884-present
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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