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Nature Study at Bellefield Elementary School

1928-03-16

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Nature Study at Bellefield Elementary School
  • Title
  • Nature Study at Bellefield Elementary School
  • Identifier
  • MSP117.B022.F03.I08
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP117.B022.F03.I08
  • Description
  • Bellefield Girl’s Vocational High School was originally constructed as an elementary school at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Thackeray Street in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh. Bellefield School, opened as a girls’ vocational high school in 1928, was named for the farm, which Neville B. Craig named in honor of his wife, Isabelle Wilson. In the belfry of the school hung a two thousand pound bell; typical of the older schools of the era. In March of 1940 the student enrollment reached 642, the highest in the school’s history. On Tuesday, January 22, 1957, the school was partially destroyed by fire. Two weeks later, it was razed and a playground for Frick School was later built on the site.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Bellefield Elementary School (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Elementary school students--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Nature study--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