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Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
URL: http://www.cmoa.org/teenie/info.asp

Description:
Teenie Harris' "40-year career with the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the largest and most influential Black newspapers in the country, began as the nation emerged from the Depression and ended with the Civil Rights Movement. Numbering upwards of 80,000 images [over 45,000 shown here], this archive represents the largest single collection of photographic images of any Black community in the United States -- or the world, for that matter." From the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.

Publisher:
Carnegie Museum of Art

Extra Keywords
African American

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
African American photographers
African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
Black History Month
Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
People
Photojournalism

LII Database Information:
Record 831 created by Dennis Maness on 07/08/2005
Last modification on 01/02/2009
Published: 07/08/2005  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/831