Hazel Scott and a woman reporter sitting with radio in domestic interior with leaf patterned curtains

ca. 1925-1973

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Hazel Scott and a woman reporter sitting with radio in domestic interior with leaf patterned curtains
  • Title
  • Hazel Scott and a woman reporter sitting with radio in domestic interior with leaf patterned curtains
  • Creator
  • Harris, Charles Teenie
  • Date
  • ca. 1925-1973
  • Identifier
  • 1996.55.16
  • Source Identifier
  • Carnegie Museum of Art 1996.55.16
  • Description
  • Hazel Scott being interviewed by a reporter in living room. Hazel Scott moved to the United States in 1924 from Trinidad, by 1929 she had won six scholarships to attend Julliard for the piano. By the 1940's she had a radio show, had performed in two Broadway musicals, and starred in five films. During the 1950's she was the first African American woman to have her own TV show, which was cancelled after she was accused of being a communist. She died in 1981. Clothing dates to ca. 1950-1960.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Women--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Interiors--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Radios--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    African Americans--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Living rooms--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Scott, Hazel.
  • 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