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Langley High School Homemaking Classroom

1947

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Langley High School Homemaking Classroom
  • Title
  • Langley High School Homemaking Classroom
  • Creator
  • Samuel A. Musgrave
  • Identifier
  • MSP117.B008.F06.I04
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP117.B008.F06.I04
  • Description
  • The goal of Home Economics education was to develop and guide the pupil in assimilating fundamental academics and skilled knowledge which will enable them to be confident in making family and life decisions for the present and the future. Home economics education encompassed a vast and diversified area of learning. Some of the courses included You and Your Home, Child Development, Your Relationship with Family and Friends, Learning about Food, and Principles of Clothing. Langley High School, located in the Sheridan neighborhood of Pittsburgh, was named in honor of Samiel Pierpont Langley, well known for his contributions in the fields of aviation, science, astronomy, and the first director of the Allegheny Observatory. April 9, 1923, marked the opening of Langley Junior-Senior High School. It was built to take the place of Riverside High School when a larger school was needed to accommodate the growing student population. Langley High School, designed by architects MacClure and Spahr, was the first Pittsburgh public school to have a modern Home Economics Kitchen (pictured here), a new Science Department, and a Public Address System.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Langley High School (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Home economics--Study and teaching--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Kitchens--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Pittsburgh Public Schools Photographs, 1880-1982, MSP 117, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Pittsburgh Public Schools Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • In Copyright. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. 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. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).. Rights Holder: Senator John Heinz History Center
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  • Rights Holder
  • Senator John Heinz History Center