Charles "Teenie" Harris was a Pittsburgh photographer who spent more than 40 years documenting the city's black community, in part as the staff photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier from 1941-1975 (he had freelanced for the paper since about 1936). Harris died in 1998, never receiving the recognition he was due, and in 2001 the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh acquired his photographic archive, about 50,000 pictures. The Teenie Harris Archive web site is an exercise in community curation--currently there are 1400 unidentified images at the site, with space for visitors to add comments and information. The Museum will add images monthly until 3,600 are presented. Already there are fascinating pictures at the site: a young Dizzy Gillespie--you'll know him by his trumpet, with the bent bell--and many pictures of Pittsburgh's Hill District, before it burned in the riots following Martin Luther King's 1968 assassination. All Pittsburgh ex-pats should pay this site a visit, to identify the pictures.
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