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Practice poll: voting machine on table surrounded by five people, including two workers for the Rev. Talley campaign for Pittsburgh City Council

ca. 1940-1958

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Practice poll: voting machine on table surrounded by five people, including two workers for the Rev. Talley campaign for Pittsburgh City Council
  • Title
  • Practice poll: voting machine on table surrounded by five people, including two workers for the Rev. Talley campaign for Pittsburgh City Council
  • Creator
  • Harris, Charles Teenie
  • Date
  • ca. 1940-1958
  • Identifier
  • 1996.69.122
  • Source Identifier
  • Carnegie Museum of Art 1996.69.122
  • Description
  • Four women and one man gather around a practice voting machine. In the background on the right one can see political fliers and directions on how to vote. The man and one of the women wear lapel ribbons saying Talley Worker, Pull the First Lever." Election poster on the far right lists Rev. Cornell Talley as a Republican candidate for City Council. Talley, pastor of the Central Baptist Church, ran in the Third Ward (Lower Hill) but lost the campaign. The style of clothing suggests a date of c.1945-1955."
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Voting-machines--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Women--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Men--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    African Americans--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
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  • Rights Holder
  • Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh