Project
Teenie Harris Archive
Office of Digital Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access, Division of Public Programs, Office of Challenge Programs
Photo caption
Lifeguard teaching boy to swim, Highland Park swimming pool, 1951.
Courtesy of University of Pittsburgh
Photo caption
Lifeguard teaching boy to swim, Highland Park swimming pool, 1951.
Courtesy of University of Pittsburgh
Charles "Teenie" Harris (1908–1998) photographed Pittsburgh's African American community from around 1935 to 1975. His archive of nearly 80,000 images is one of the most detailed and intimate records of the black urban experience known today.