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)

(Image credit: (Teenie Harris/Heinz Family Fund))

(Image credit: (Teenie Harris/Heinz Family Fund))

(Image credit: (Teenie Harris/Heinz Family Fund))

(Image credit: (Teenie Harris/Heinz Family Fund))

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(Image credit: (Teenie Harris/Heinz Family Fund))

(Image credit: (Teenie Harris/Heinz Family Fund))

(Image credit: (Teenie Harris/Heinz Family Fund))

(Image credit: (Teenie Harris/Heinz Family Fund))

(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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