Oscar Charleston Photo 16×20 (Teenie Harris Estate Photo) Dodgers

1945 Brooklyn Dodgers – Oscar Charleston 16×20 Photo (Teenie Harris Estate Photo)

From the Depression Era through the early 1970s, Teenie Harris earned renown as a trailblazer in professional photography. His atelier was Pittsburgh where he operated an independent studio, but he plied most of his career in the service of the Courier, one of the Steel City’s dailies. Through much of his life, Pittsburgh epitomized the industrial northeast, but the city’s social composition was a dynamic quiltwork of cultural diversity, and Harris’ images captured the urban flavor with a new level of skill.

This paticular photo of Oscar Charleston was captured by his lens and it measures a whopping 16×20. The stampings on the reverse indicate its origin from the Teenie Harris estate.