Numbers Guys: Gus Greenlee, Woogie Harris, and Joe Robinson, including photograph of John Henry Lewis in background

ca. 1945-1955

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Numbers Guys: Gus Greenlee, Woogie Harris, and Joe Robinson, including photograph of John Henry Lewis in background
  • Title
  • Numbers Guys: Gus Greenlee, Woogie Harris, and Joe Robinson, including photograph of John Henry Lewis in background
  • Creator
  • Harris, Charles Teenie
  • Date
  • ca. 1945-1955
  • Identifier
  • 1997.34.3.4
  • Source Identifier
  • Carnegie Museum of Art 1997.34.3.4
  • Description
  • Gus Greenlee, 'Woogie' Harris, and Joe Robinson, the three owners of the Crawford Grill's one and two, seated at a restaurant table. Hanging on the wall behind them is a poster of a boxer. Greenlee and Harris were the king pins of Pittsburgh's numbers racket.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Harris, Woogie.
    Robinson, Joe.
    Greenlee, Gus.
    Men--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    African Americans--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Group portraits--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
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  • Rights Holder
  • Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh