In 1937 he decided to become a photographer and used a 4-by-5 inch Speed Graphic to document black society in Pittsburgh providing photographs to Flash Magazine and later to the Pittsburgh Courier.
The Teene Harris archive is held by the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA.
Genealogy of Teenie Harris
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