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Lot 108

Sale 2070 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, including African Americana
Lots Open
Feb 14, 2025
Lots Close
Feb 27, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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$400 - 600
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$240
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[PHOTOG.] HARRIS, Charles "Teenie" (1908-1998). Arthur Oursley and Erin Ma Pitts Godfrey. Ca 1949.


8 x 10 in. silver gelatin photograph, ink signed "Teenie Harris" in the lower margin. With Harris Studio embossed stamp at lower right. The photograph shows Arthur Oursley seated at a bar, with Erin Ma Pitts Godfrey behind the counter, in Ma Pitts Restaurant. Ca 1949.

Prominent African American news photographer Charles "Teenie" Harris had a 40-year career with the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the country's oldest Black newspapers. He was best-known for documenting African American life in Pittsburgh during the mid-20th century. Throughout his career, Harris produced more than 80,000 images, which were purchased from his estate by the Carnegie Museum of Art.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

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