![Pittsburgh Crawfords, 1932 (via)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: April 29, 1932
The first Negro League ballpark in the world is constructed by Gus Greenlee. The Pittsburgh Crawfords will call Greenlee Field home until they disband in 1938. Today’s Josh Gibson Field carries on the field’s legacy. [Wikipedia]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m32ih7rUnn1qakblyo1_500.jpg)
Pittsburgh Crawfords, 1932 (via)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: April 29, 1932
The first Negro League ballpark in the world is constructed by Gus Greenlee. The Pittsburgh Crawfords will call Greenlee Field home until they disband in 1938. Today’s Josh Gibson Field carries on the field’s legacy. [Wikipedia]
Mary Dee Dudley, one of the nation’s first black female disc jockeys, was in the air chair at a special Hill District studio for what was then known as WHOD (860) in Homestead. Pittsburgh Courier archives. (via)
![On This Day in Pittsburgh History: April 13, 1992
Two Trains Running, the seventh play in August Wilson’s ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle, premieres on Broadway. The play, set in a Hill District restaurant scheduled to be razed in a city redevelopment plan in 1969, stars Laurence Fishburne (left) and Al White. [Playbill]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2aez6JlVQ1qakblyo1_500.jpg)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: April 13, 1992
Two Trains Running, the seventh play in August Wilson’s ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle, premieres on Broadway. The play, set in a Hill District restaurant scheduled to be razed in a city redevelopment plan in 1969, stars Laurence Fishburne (left) and Al White. [Playbill]
![Two girls with former slave Sabre “Mother” Washington, Pittsburgh, early 1950s. Teenie Harris. [Carnegie Museum of Art]
One of the girls, a neighbor of Washington’s, discovered the photograph years later. Washington, who grew up in South Carolina before moving to Pittsburgh, passed away in 1960 at the age of 113.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2119h1q9S1qakblyo1_500.jpg)
Two girls with former slave Sabre “Mother” Washington, Pittsburgh, early 1950s. Teenie Harris. [Carnegie Museum of Art]
One of the girls, a neighbor of Washington’s, discovered the photograph years later. Washington, who grew up in South Carolina before moving to Pittsburgh, passed away in 1960 at the age of 113.
Debs About Town members, posed on step outside of the University of Pittsburgh’s Falk School, 1941 (via)
This is the last week to see Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art. I’ll be posting a Teenie Harris photo each day this week — some are currently on exhibit, and all are from the Carnegie’s vast online collection of images.
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: March 26, 1987
Fences, the sixth play in August Wilson’s ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle, premieres on Broadway. The play (set in the 1950s and starring James Earl Jones) won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play.
![National Negro Opera Company, America’s first black opera company, founded by Mary Cardwell Dawson in 1941 [Young Preservationists Association of Pittsburgh via WQED]
Watch the WQED-TV feature here.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzuri2s9FG1qakblyo1_500.jpg)
National Negro Opera Company, America’s first black opera company, founded by Mary Cardwell Dawson in 1941 [Young Preservationists Association of Pittsburgh via WQED]
Watch the WQED-TV feature here.
Eartha Kitt, snapped by Charles “Teenie” Harris in May 1966, leaping though a poster to launch a Citizens Committee on Hill District Renewal program on Vine and Colwell Streets in Pittsburgh, PA. Get thee to the Carnegie Museum of Art before April 7, 2012 people!
![Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., shaking hands with James McCoy Jr., with Mike Desmond on his right, surrounded by men and women (including Charles “Teenie” Harris and Matthew Moore), at University of Pittsburgh Student Union, November 1966 [Carnegie Museum of Art]
Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story: Carnegie Museum of Art, on exhibit until April 7, 2012](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzjqqmwVwh1qakblyo1_500.jpg)
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., shaking hands with James McCoy Jr., with Mike Desmond on his right, surrounded by men and women (including Charles “Teenie” Harris and Matthew Moore), at University of Pittsburgh Student Union, November 1966 [Carnegie Museum of Art]
Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story: Carnegie Museum of Art, on exhibit until April 7, 2012
Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story: Carnegie Museum of Art, on exhibit until April 7, 2012
Related: London Daily Mail’s recent photo gallery of the exhibition!
![B&M Restaurant customers seated at counter, Pittsburgh. Teenie Harris [Carnegie Museum of Art]
Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story: Heinz Galleries, CMOA, on exhibit until April 7, 2012](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyujv5WP1y1qakblyo1_500.jpg)
B&M Restaurant customers seated at counter, Pittsburgh. Teenie Harris [Carnegie Museum of Art]
Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story: Heinz Galleries, CMOA, on exhibit until April 7, 2012
![Pittsburgh Crawfords, 1932 (via)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: April 29, 1932
The first Negro League ballpark in the world is constructed by Gus Greenlee. The Pittsburgh Crawfords will call Greenlee Field home until they disband in 1938. Today’s Josh Gibson Field carries on the field’s legacy. [Wikipedia]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m32ih7rUnn1qakblyo1_1280.jpg)
Pittsburgh Crawfords, 1932 (via)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: April 29, 1932
The first Negro League ballpark in the world is constructed by Gus Greenlee. The Pittsburgh Crawfords will call Greenlee Field home until they disband in 1938. Today’s Josh Gibson Field carries on the field’s legacy. [Wikipedia]
Mary Dee Dudley, one of the nation’s first black female disc jockeys, was in the air chair at a special Hill District studio for what was then known as WHOD (860) in Homestead. Pittsburgh Courier archives. (via)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: April 13, 1992
Two Trains Running, the seventh play in August Wilson’s ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle, premieres on Broadway. The play, set in a Hill District restaurant scheduled to be razed in a city redevelopment plan in 1969, stars Laurence Fishburne (left) and Al White. [Playbill]
![Two girls with former slave Sabre “Mother” Washington, Pittsburgh, early 1950s. Teenie Harris. [Carnegie Museum of Art]
One of the girls, a neighbor of Washington’s, discovered the photograph years later. Washington, who grew up in South Carolina before moving to Pittsburgh, passed away in 1960 at the age of 113.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2119h1q9S1qakblyo1_1280.jpg)
Two girls with former slave Sabre “Mother” Washington, Pittsburgh, early 1950s. Teenie Harris. [Carnegie Museum of Art]
One of the girls, a neighbor of Washington’s, discovered the photograph years later. Washington, who grew up in South Carolina before moving to Pittsburgh, passed away in 1960 at the age of 113.
Debs About Town members, posed on step outside of the University of Pittsburgh’s Falk School, 1941 (via)
This is the last week to see Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art. I’ll be posting a Teenie Harris photo each day this week — some are currently on exhibit, and all are from the Carnegie’s vast online collection of images.
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: March 26, 1987
Fences, the sixth play in August Wilson’s ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle, premieres on Broadway. The play (set in the 1950s and starring James Earl Jones) won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play.
National Negro Opera Company, America’s first black opera company, founded by Mary Cardwell Dawson in 1941 [Young Preservationists Association of Pittsburgh via WQED]
Watch the WQED-TV feature here.
Eartha Kitt, snapped by Charles “Teenie” Harris in May 1966, leaping though a poster to launch a Citizens Committee on Hill District Renewal program on Vine and Colwell Streets in Pittsburgh, PA. Get thee to the Carnegie Museum of Art before April 7, 2012 people!
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., shaking hands with James McCoy Jr., with Mike Desmond on his right, surrounded by men and women (including Charles “Teenie” Harris and Matthew Moore), at University of Pittsburgh Student Union, November 1966 [Carnegie Museum of Art]
Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story: Carnegie Museum of Art, on exhibit until April 7, 2012
Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story: Carnegie Museum of Art, on exhibit until April 7, 2012
Related: London Daily Mail’s recent photo gallery of the exhibition!
B&M Restaurant customers seated at counter, Pittsburgh. Teenie Harris [Carnegie Museum of Art]
Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story: Heinz Galleries, CMOA, on exhibit until April 7, 2012
