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Documenting our past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project

Black-and-white photographs of the African American community in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1930 to 1970 taken by Teenie Harris, African American photographer for the African American newspaper the Pittsburgh Courier

More About This Collection

Creator
Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998

Date of Original
1930/1970

Subject
African American photographers--Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh Courier Publishing Co.
African Americans--Pennsylvania--Social life and customs--History--20th century

People
Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998

Location
United States, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, 40.44062, -79.99589

Medium
black-and-white photographs

Type
StillImage

Description
Teenie Harris' photographs portray a range of subjects, evoke the spirit of an era, and display the humanity of a people. 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, this archive represents the largest single collection of photographic images of any Black community in the United States-or the world for that matter.
In 2001, Carnegie Museum of Art acquired the collection from the Harris family. The museum is in the process of cataloguing and digitizing the images and plans to present a major retrospective on Harris' work in 2009. Using the museum's online collection search page, you can now view over 18,000 images in the collection, and more are being added to the database each week. Since many of the photographs and negatives were not labeled, the museum asks the assistance of the public in helping to identify the people, places, and events in the images and provides an e-mail link included in every Teenie Harris negative record in our online database.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.

Metadata URL
https://cmoa.org/art/teenie-harris-archive/

Rights Holder
Carnegie Museum of Art

Contributing Institution
Carnegie Museum of Art

Rights

1. Jesse Jackson and civil rights advocates, including Bob Collins, George Simmons, Ewari [Ed] Ellis, Luther Sewell, and Clyde Jackson, preparing for press conference

Creator:: Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
Date of Original:: 1972-02
Collection:: Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
Contributing Institution:: Carnegie Museum of Art

2. Jesse Jackson wearing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., medallion, standing with a woman and two men

Creator:: Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
Date of Original:: 1972
Collection:: Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
Contributing Institution:: Carnegie Museum of Art

3. Marchers demonstrating for International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination on street at Landleiss Street intersection

Creator:: Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
Date of Original:: 1972
Collection:: Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
Contributing Institution:: Carnegie Museum of Art

4. Men walking on sidewalk wearing sandwich boards protesting against Port Authority, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Smirnoff, and Italian Swiss Colony Wines, billboard for Parliament cigarettes in background

Creator:: Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
Date of Original:: 1971-08
Collection:: Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
Contributing Institution:: Carnegie Museum of Art

5. Protesters with sandwich boards reading "This Store Unfair to Farmworkers" and "United Farmworkers Support PAT Drivers" outside Kentucky Fried Chicken

Creator:: Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
Date of Original:: 1971-08
Collection:: Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
Contributing Institution:: Carnegie Museum of Art

6. Protesters with sandwich boards reading "This Store Unfair to Farm Workers" outside Kentucky Fried Chicken on the Boulevard of the Allies

Creator:: Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
Date of Original:: 1971-08
Collection:: Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
Contributing Institution:: Carnegie Museum of Art

7. Protesters, including priest, with sandwich boards reading "Colonel Sanders Unfair to Farm Workers" outside Kentucky Fried Chicken

Creator:: Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
Date of Original:: 1971-06
Collection:: Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
Contributing Institution:: Carnegie Museum of Art

8. Group of men gathered around a sign reading "Police.. We need your protection... not your harassment, Garfield Teen Organization," on a residential street

Creator:: Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
Date of Original:: 1970/1975
Collection:: Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
Contributing Institution:: Carnegie Museum of Art

9. Group of protesters outside Civic Building with signs reading "Housing authority, you must be fair to your community," and "Housing authority [board] don't you trust your legal administrative staff"

Creator:: Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
Date of Original:: 1970/1975
Collection:: Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
Contributing Institution:: Carnegie Museum of Art

10. Men and women including Harold Hayes second from left, C. DeLores Tucker, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, with Duane Darkins and Reverend LeRoy Patrick, on right, at an NAACP Women's Auxiliary event at the William Pitt Union

Creator:: Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
Date of Original:: 1970/1980
Collection:: Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
Contributing Institution:: Carnegie Museum of Art

11. Men installing sign reading "Police...We need your protection...not your harassment" in residential area

Creator:: Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
Date of Original:: 1970/1975
Collection:: Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
Contributing Institution:: Carnegie Museum of Art

12. Group of school children crossing the street with two women protesting, holding signs, one reads "For 8 years there hasn't been a guard at this [corner], Why?"

Creator:: Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
Date of Original:: 1969
Collection:: Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
Contributing Institution:: Carnegie Museum of Art

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