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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 |