Sarah Heinz House Activities

1950

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Sarah Heinz House Activities
  • Title
  • Sarah Heinz House Activities
  • Identifier
  • MSP57.B060.F06.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP57.B060.F06.I02
  • Description
  • A Basketball team at the Sarah Heinz House. In 1913 H.J. Heinz Company started to build a $500,000 brick and marble social service center for children next to the main plant in Pittsburgh’s North Side neighborhood as an addition to the Covode House. The Sarah Heinz House was equipped with a swimming pool, gymnasium, auditorium, workshops, clubrooms, classrooms, craft rooms, lounges, a library, showers and washrooms, kitchens, game rooms, and a roof court on the grounds next to the main plant. Boys were eligible for membership from ages eight to eighteen. Requirements for membership included a nominal annual fee, scaled from twenty-five cents to three dollars, and a physical examination by the House physician. The activities at Heinz House were classified in two areas: physical education and group clubs. Some group activities included woodshop, pottery, arts and crafts, cooking, baking, sewing, and various team sports (pictured here). Sarah Heinz House also had volunteer workers (standing, far right), usually employees from the nearby Heinz plant, that devoted their time for classes and team sports.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Sarah Heinz House (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Boys--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Basketball--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Volunteers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • H.J. Heinz Company, Photographs, 1864-1991, MSP 57, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • H.J. Heinz Company 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