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Oakland Scene

1940/1950

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Oakland Scene
  • Title
  • Oakland Scene
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B004.F13.I14
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B004.F13.I14
  • Description
  • The South Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh featuring the 42-story Cathedral of Learning (right background), the tallest English and French Gothic styled building and second-tallest education building in the world. The building, designed by architect Charles Zeller Klauder, houses a massive Commons Room and numerous Nationality Rooms. In the left center are the light fixtures for Forbes Field (behind the houses), home of the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1909 until 1970.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • University of Pittsburgh.Cathedral of Learning.
    Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    University buildings--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development 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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