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Children in costumes with a book display at McKelvy School on Bedford Avenue, Hill District

ca. 1925-1973

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Children in costumes with a book display at McKelvy School on Bedford Avenue, Hill District
  • Title
  • Children in costumes with a book display at McKelvy School on Bedford Avenue, Hill District
  • Creator
  • Harris, Charles Teenie
  • Date
  • ca. 1925-1973
  • Identifier
  • 1996.69.68
  • Source Identifier
  • Carnegie Museum of Art 1996.69.68
  • Description
  • A group of children pose behind a table full of books, probably at the McKelvy School on Bedford Avenue in the Hill District. Several of the children are in costume, including one boy in a straw hat and blue jeans, another in a fur cap with a gun, a girl wearing a tiara and a dress covered with alphabet letters and holding a wand, and a boy in an exotic feathered outfit. The Wind in the Willows is the only recognizable book on the table. A painted backdrop reads Books Are Bridges and "World Fun [Inf]ormat[io]n." It has been suggested that the children participated in a performance encouraging families to read.""
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Children--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Boys--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Girls--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Group portraits--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Interiors--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Child actors--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Literacy--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    African Americans--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    McKelvy School (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Books--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Teenie Harris Photograph Collection, 1920-1970
  • Contributor
  • Carnegie Museum of Art
  • Collection
  • Teenie Harris Photographs
  • Rights Information
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  • Rights Holder
  • Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh