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Yugoslavian Nationality Room

March 31, 1939

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Yugoslavian Nationality Room
  • Title
  • Yugoslavian Nationality Room
  • Date
  • March 31, 1939
  • Identifier
  • YUCR01.UA
  • Description
  • The Yugoslav Nationality Room combines the crafts of wood carving, weaving and lace making with tributes to Yugoslav cultural leaders. Above the blackboard can be seen two portraits. The portraits are of Vuk Karadzic, and Bishop Josip Strossmayer who compiled the Serbian dictionary. The intricate woodwork done on the ceilings and walls was done back in Yugoslavia with small pocket knives. The Yugoslav Room was dedicated on March 31, 1939. 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
    slides (photographs)
  • Subject
  • Rooms
    Classrooms
    Chairs
    Cathedral of Learning (Pittsburgh, Pa.). Yugoslav 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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