Scottish Nationality Room

July 8, 1938

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Scottish Nationality Room
  • Title
  • Scottish Nationality Room
  • Date
  • July 8, 1938
  • Identifier
  • SCCR01.UA
  • Description
  • The Scottish Room is designed to reflect a 17th century hall dedicated to ancient clans and cultural heroes. The portrait on the wall is Scotland's most famous poet, Robert Burns. The room also emphasizes the Scottish love for freedom with the quotes from John Barbour, "A Freedome is a noble thing," and " Freedome all solace to men's giffis." The Scottish room was dedicated July 8, 1938. 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
    Cathedral of Learning (Pittsburgh, Pa.). Scottish 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
  • 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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