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Swedish Nationality Room

July 8, 1938

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Swedish Nationality Room
  • Title
  • Swedish Nationality Room
  • Date
  • July 8, 1938
  • Identifier
  • SWCR01UA
  • Description
  • This Swedish Room combines the bright warm atmosphere of a country cottage with cheerful murals painted in the style of an 18th century artist. The walls are made of 200-year-old brick which are traditionally covered with many coats of whitewash. The men on horse are the Swedish representations of the biblical three wise men on their way to Bethlehem. The woman in the middle is Saint Catherine, the patron saint of Sweden. The Swedish 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.). Swedish 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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