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Teenie Harris' Pennsylvania

Mid-century America, through the lens of a prolific photographer

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by Jackie Friedman
September 26, 2016

Self Portrait in Harris Studio, 1940.

(Teenie Harris/Agfa Safety Film, Carnegie Museum of Art, Heinz Family Fund)Born in Pittsburgh in 1908, Harris grew up in the Hill District, the city's center of African American life and cult

A man holds the polling booth curtain open, circa 1953.

(Teenie Harris/Heinz Family Fund)

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October 1949.

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President John F. Kennedy speaking in Monessen, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 13, 1962.

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Two men, including police officer Sidney Wilson on the right, assist centenarian Duke Finch out of a polling place, circa 1945-1950.

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Progressive Matrons club officers pose for a group picture in November 1941.

(Teenie Harris/Heinz Family Fund)

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Picketing hospital workers in Oakland, Pennsylvania.

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The Pittsburgh Courier building decorated with bunting and a large image of the 1940 Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie.

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Linda Starkey hands a bouquet to presidential candidate Shirley Chisholm, surrounded by Delta Sigma Theta sorority members, on March 5, 1972.

(Teenie Harris/Heinz Family Fund)

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Orson Welles and Harry Truman in front of a police station in the Hill District, circa 1944.

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Circa 1944.

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Vice President Richard Nixon greets the crowd from his car in Hill District, October 1960.

(Teenie Harris/Heinz Family Fund)**Teenis Harris Photographs: Elections is on view now through Dec. 5, 2016, at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh**

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