Shop Class at Sterrett School

1951-05

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Shop Class at Sterrett School
  • Title
  • Shop Class at Sterrett School
  • Creator
  • Samuel A. Musgrave
  • Identifier
  • MSP117.B008.F06.I07
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP117.B008.F06.I07
  • Description
  • In the 1950s Sterrett Elementary School offered home economics and shop classes to both boys and girls. Sterrett Elementary School honors James P. Sterrett, Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. The original Sterrett School was built in 1840 where the Homewood Cemetery is now located. This structure was later replaced by the second Sterrett School at the corner of South Lang Avenue and Reynolds Street in 1899. A newspaper article at the time described it as “one of the handsomest structures of its kind in Allegheny County, having on its top an observatory which will house an eight-inch telescope to be presented by H. C. Frick to the scholars.” Originally built as an elementary school, Sterrett was converted to an annex of Reizenstein Middle School in 1977. In 1979 it became Sterrett Classical Academy for grades six through eight.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Sterrett School (Pittsburgh, Pa.).Shop Class.
    Elementary 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
  • In Copyright. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. 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. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).. Rights Holder: Senator John Heinz History Center
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  • Rights Holder
  • Senator John Heinz History Center