[PRCo] Re: Teenie Harris Collection

[Bill Robb]

--- Fred Schneider <fschnei at supernet.com> wrote:

> If my memory works as well as I would like (and this
> morning I have great doubts), Teenie Harris was an
> African American photographer who lived in the Hill
> Diztrict and who was noted for his photographs of
> the neighborhood when it had vitality as a
> commercial and entertainment center for the
> people who lived there.  But the streetcar shows
> that a lot of the people also went downtown ...
> maybe the car was taking them to work.
> I've seen a large print ... perhaps 11x14 ... at the
> museum (the means PTM) which showed an entire
> trolley in front of the Hertron Hill Car House ...
> taken from a second or third story window across the
> street.  It may also be one of Mr. Harris' works.  I
> do not have high speed internet so I'm
> not about to scan through all of his photos to find
> it.   Matt may wish to continue the search.
> 


Let's see if this works:

http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?sid=10dc0aaff30592fad380256916168ebf;g=imls;med=1;c=cmaharris;q1=cmaharris;rgn1=cmaharris_all;evl=full-image;quality=2;view=entry;subview=detail;lasttype=boolean;cc=cmaharris;entryid=x-1997.34.3.2;viewid=1003287.TIF;start=381;resnum=400

It's titled Herron Avenue Car Barn and is dated 1950.

If you go into the Full Text section of Historic
Pittsburgh and search for Lewis Guide, you will find
the Lewis 1923 Street & "Trolly" Guide.  Trolly is
mispelled on the cover

There is a section listing streetcar lines as of 1923,
with the headway, round trip running time, and night
car times (if any).

http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?c=pitttext

Bill Robb


		
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