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Czechoslovak Nationality Room
May 13, 1939
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Title
Czechoslovak Nationality Room
Date
May 13, 1939
Identifier
CZCR80.UA
Description
Dr. Benes speaks in the Czechoslovak room while Hana Benes, Tanya Sturman and Chancellor Bowman look on. A transcript of the speech was later placed in the Masaryk shrine in the Czechoslovak classroom. President and Mrs. Benes visited Pittsburgh and the Czechoslovak classroom during their exile from Czechoslovakia in 1939. The Czechoslovak room emphasizes education, leadership and a love of nature. It was designed by Dr. Bohumil Slama. In the back of the room is the proclamation that King Charles the IV issued when he created Prague's Charles University in 1348. The murals near the windows depict animals and plants interacting, which were painted by artists Karel and Marie Svolinski from Prague. The Czechoslovak room was dedicated March 7, 1939. 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
Subject
Persons
Cathedral of Learning (Pittsburgh, Pa.). Czechoslovak Room
Beneš, Edvard, 1884-1948
Benešová, Hana, 1885-1974
Bowman, John G. (John Gabbert), 1877-1962
Geographic Subjects
Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Source
University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs, 1884-present
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh
Collection
University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs
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