Teenie Harris' Pennsylvania
Mid-century America, through the lens of a prolific photographer
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)
October 1949.
(Teenie Harris/Heinz Family Fund)
President John F. Kennedy speaking in Monessen, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 13, 1962.
(Teenie Harris/Heinz Family Fund)
Two men, including police officer Sidney Wilson on the right, assist centenarian Duke Finch out of a polling place, circa 1945-1950.
(Teenie Harris/Heinz Family Fund)
Progressive Matrons club officers pose for a group picture in November 1941.
(Teenie Harris/Heinz Family Fund)
Picketing hospital workers in Oakland, Pennsylvania.
(Teenie Harris/Heinz Family Fund)
The Pittsburgh Courier building decorated with bunting and a large image of the 1940 Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie.
(Teenie Harris/Heinz Family Fund)
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)
Orson Welles and Harry Truman in front of a police station in the Hill District, circa 1944.
(Teenie Harris/Heinz Family Fund)
Circa 1944.
(Teenie Harris/Heinz Family Fund)
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**
