Charles “Teenie” Harris collection
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Scope and Contents
The Charles “Teenie” Harris Collection consists of 394 black-and-white proof prints separated into two boxes.
Dates
- circa 1935 - circa 1975
Creator
- Harris, Charles "Teenie", 1908-1998 (Person)
Language of Materials
Material language not defined.
Conditions Governing Access
To access materials from this collection, please contact CCP-RefDesk@email.arizona.edu
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission from the copyright owner (which could be the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates or literary executors) prior to any copyright-protected uses of the collection.
The user agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents, the University of Arizona, Center of Creative Photography, including its officers, employees, and agents, from and against all claims made relating to copyright or other intellectual property infringement
Biographical Note
Charles "Teenie" Harris (1908–1998) photographed the events and daily life of African Americans for the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the nation's most influential black newspapers. One of the paper's principal photographers from the 1930s to 1970s, Harris documented nearly all of the notable events in the city at that time, as well as a wide range of activities in daily life, including Little League games, weddings, church groups, nightlife, and beauty contests. In 2001, Carnegie Museum of Art purchased the Harris archive of nearly 80,000 photographic negatives, few of which are titled and dated. The archive, a richly detailed record of public personalities and events, and the lives of average people, is considered one of the most important documentations of 20th-century African American life.
Extent
2 Boxes (1 linear foot)
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Abstract
392 proof prints by the photographer Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908-1998). He photographed Pittsburgh’s African American community from ca. 1935 – ca. 1975.
Arrangement
The Collection is arranged into the following series:
- Series 1: Photographic Materials
Custodial History
Gift of Richard S. Press, 2013.
- Title
- Charles “Teenie” Harris Collectionca. 1935-ca. 1975
- Author
- Finding aid created by CCP Archives Staff
- Date
- © 2020
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Based On Dacs (Describing Archives: A Content Standard)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid encoded in English
Repository Details
Part of the Center for Creative Photography Archives Repository
