Roosevelt School Thanksgiving Pageant

1948/1966

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Title
Roosevelt School Thanksgiving Pageant
Identifier
MSP117.B013.F07.I01
Source Identifier
MSP117.B013.F07.I01
Description
The Roosevelt School and Annex, located at 1001 Greenfield Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Greenfield neighborhood, was named in honor of then president Theodore Roosevelt. The school was built in 1906 and contained fireproof walls, twelve classrooms, two home economics, and two industrial training rooms. In that same year, only five of the twelve classrooms were used by grades one through seven. By 1915 the school had become so overcrowded that two portable rooms were added to the structure. In 1955 and 1956 the first and fifth grades were used as control groups in the first television lessons in speech, reading, and arithmetic on WQED, the first community sponsored educational television station in the United States. Roosevelt School and Annex was razed in January 1957.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Roosevelt School (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Children--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
School plays--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Thanksgiving--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Source
Pittsburgh Public Schools Photographs, 1880-1982, MSP 117, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
Pittsburgh Public Schools Photographs
Rights Information
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Rights Holder
Senator John Heinz History Center