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Czechoslovak Nationality Room

May 13, 1939

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Czechoslovak Nationality Room
  • 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
  • Genre
  • photographs
    photographic prints
    gelatin silver prints
  • 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
  • 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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