Lithuanian Nationality Room | Historic Pittsburgh

October 4, 1940

Title
Lithuanian Nationality Room
Date
October 4, 1940
Identifier
LICR01.UA
Description
The Lithuanian Room is designed to reflect peoples reliance on their homes and towns. The materials used for this room were pulled from people's houses or farms. The fresco on the back wall is entitled "The Two Kings," who protect the most valuable thing in Lithuanian culture, which is the village. The stars in the background of the fresco are symbols of hope. The Lithuanian Room was dedicated October 4, 1940. 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
Subject
Rooms
Classrooms
Chairs
Windows
Cathedral of Learning (Pittsburgh, Pa.). Lithuanian Room
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
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