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Jones Salk Hall

1963

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Jones Salk Hall
  • Title
  • Jones Salk Hall
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B009.F09.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B009.F09.I01
  • Description
  • Jonas Salk Hall, located on the University of Pittsburgh campus in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood, was formally known as the Municipal Hospital. The building was designed by the architects Richard Irving & Theodore Eichholz in 1940. The building was named for Jonas Salk, who created the first effective polio vaccine in the early 1950s while on the faculty at the University. Salk’s labs were on the ground floor and in the basement. He used rhesus monkeys in his work, and years later the walls were said to bear the paw prints of animals that had scampered out of their cages. Today, the School of Pharmacy and the School of Dental Medicine are housed in this building.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • University of Pittsburgh.Jones E. Salk Hall.
    University of Pittsburgh.School of Pharmacy.
    University of Pittsburgh.School of Dental Medicine.
    University buildings--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • 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
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