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High School Aeronautics Class at Buhl Planetarium

1948/1966

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High School Aeronautics Class at Buhl Planetarium
  • Title
  • High School Aeronautics Class at Buhl Planetarium
  • Identifier
  • MSP117.B013.F07.I03
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP117.B013.F07.I03
  • Description
  • Pittsburgh Public School Aeronautics class students during a presentation of celestial navigation at the Buhl Planetarium. The Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science, located in Pittsburgh’s North Side neighborhood, was designed by architects Ingham, Pratt & Boyd. The facility opened as the United States' fifth major planetarium on October 24, 1939, and several years later featured a Zeiss II Planetarium and a ten-inch, Siderostat-type, refractor telescope. The Buhl Foundation completely funded the construction and furnishing of the Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science building at a cost of $1.07 million. The Buhl Foundation then presented the building along with all equipment and furnishings as a gift to the City of Pittsburgh. The Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science closed as a public museum on August 31, 1991. In April 2002 Pittsburgh City Council approved a bill allowing the lease of the building to the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Zeiss projector (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Pittsburgh Public Schools (Pa.).Aeronautics class.
    High school students--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