Tag: Hill District
- Teenie Harris Archive
With Diligence and Care: Celebrating Memorial Day through the Photographs of Charles “Teenie” Harris
Photographs by Charles "Teenie" Harris offer glimpses of the lives of black soldiers during World War II.
- Teenie Harris Archive
Nina Simone and the Blurred Line Between Public and Private Life
Niela Orr explores Charles “Teenie” Harris's double exposure of Nina Simone, one of the more arresting images the photographer captured during his decades long career.
- Teenie Harris Archive
Remembering Bill Nunn: Actor, Mentor, and Friend
Charlene Foggie-Barnett of the Teenie Harris Archive reflects on the passing of Bill Nunn III.
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Bob Pease: The Man Who Helped Remake Postwar Pittsburgh
As executive director of the Urban Redevelopment Authority, Robert Pease led some of the key projects undertaken during the Pittsburgh Renaissance.
- Teenie Harris Archive
Riding in the Family Car with Teenie Harris
Teenie Harris’s love of cars was visible in many of his photographs. In this video, his children remember their father's connection to the automobile.
- Teenie Harris Archive
In an Era of Segregation, Owl Cab Mobilized Black Pittsburgh
How discrimination led to the founding of Owl Cab in Pittsburgh's historic Hill District neighborhood.
- Teenie Harris Archive
The Missing Made Visible: In the Footsteps of Teenie Harris
Poet Yona Harvey reflects on photographer Teenie Harris and the civil rights movement in Pittsburgh.
- Teenie Harris Archive
View from the Hill: A Tale of Black Pittsburgh’s Complicated Legacy
The story of how the Fifth Avenue School Lofts came to exist is a complicated one that I will attempt to simplify. It is also contentious.
- Teenie Harris Archive
Kings on the Hill: Rise of the Pittsburgh Crawfords
One of the greatest baseball clubs of all time began as a group of neighborhoods kids in Pittsburgh playing ball on the sandlots of the Hill District.