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Lot 110
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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Estimate
$400 -
600
Price Realized
$360
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Lot Description
[PHOTOGRAPHY]. HARRIS, Charles "Teenie," (1908-1998). Photograph of Black waitstaff. Ca 1955.
8 x 10 in. silver gelatin photograph, ink signed "Teenie Harris" in the lower margin. The photograph captures three waitresses wearing corsages, lined up with a waiter behind a restaurant counter. Ca 1955.
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.
