Teenie Harris' Pennsylvania
Mid-century America, through the lens of a prolific photographer


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(Image credit: (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)

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(Image credit: (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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Jackie Friedman is the assistant photo editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the photojournalism program at Kent State University and now lives in New York.
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