Lunch counter at the Centre Avenue YMCA, with Courier photographer Walter Allen seated

ca. 1945-1963

View this item

Lunch counter at the Centre Avenue YMCA, with Courier photographer Walter Allen seated
  • Title
  • Lunch counter at the Centre Avenue YMCA, with Courier photographer Walter Allen seated
  • Creator
  • Harris, Charles Teenie
  • Date
  • ca. 1945-1963
  • Identifier
  • 1996.69.280
  • Source Identifier
  • Carnegie Museum of Art 1996.69.280
  • Description
  • The Centre Avenue YMCA is located at Centre and Francis Street in the Hill District. A waitress brings a glass of water to one of the patrons at the lunch counter. Men, women and a small boy are present. Two women watch the scene through a narrow window in the back wall. Walter Allen, possibly the man at left reading a paper, had begun working for the Pittsburgh Courier as a clerk by 1941. However, style of dress and decor suggest a date in the 1950s.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Young Men's Christian Association (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Restaurants--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Allen, Walter.
    Men--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Women--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Boys--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    African Americans--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Interiors--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Teenie Harris Photograph Collection, 1920-1970
  • Contributor
  • Carnegie Museum of Art
  • Collection
  • Teenie Harris Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • In Copyright. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).. Rights Holder: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
    http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
  • Rights Holder
  • Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh