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Those Interested in Reviewing Books Should Contact Thomas White at Tewhite@Hswp.Org Or (412) 454-6362 BOOK Those interested in reviewing books should contact Thomas White at [email protected] or (412) 454-6362. Publishers and authors can send review copies to the Editor, Western Pennsylvania History, Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, 1212 Smallman Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15222. A Century of Heroes tectural and physical features. Both the Fort Hunky: The Immigrant Experience Edited by Douglas R. Chambers Pitt Museum and the Somerset Historical By Nicholas Stevensson Karas (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004) Center deal with the early settlement of Western (Bloomington, Ind.: 1st Books, 2004) Photos, illustrations, 240 pp., $29.95 softcover Pennsylvania. The guides are heavily illustrated 504 pp., $26.50 softcover and contain maps to the sites. Written to commemorate the centennial of the Hunky provides a fictional account of Carpatho- Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, this moving Rusyn immigrants and their life in industrial book recounts the stories of some of the thou- Friends and Enemies in Penn's Woods: America that mirrors the stories and sacrifices sands of men and women who have been recog- Indians, Colonists, and the Racial Construction of many real life families. Though there are nized for risking their own lives to save others. of Pennsylvania some liberties taken with history, the book is From the first recipient of the Carnegie Medal, Edited by William A. Pencak and Daniel K. Richter rich in detail and captures the physical, eco- Louis Baumann, who saved his friend from (University Park, Penn State University Press, nomic, and emotional struggles that faced drowning, to the heroes of September 1 1th, the 2004) those who came to America. book will enthrall readers with accounts of the Illustrations, 336 pp. $22.95 softcover best of human nature. A collection of essays by various experts on An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Indians and the colonial era which analyze the Slaves, and the Creation of America Death by Renaissance impact of relations between Natives and the By Henry Weincek By Paola Corso colonists in early Pennsylvania. By addressing (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003) (Huron, Ohio: Bottom Dog Press, 2004) the colonists' ideas about race, the authors Illustrations, photos, 404 pp., $26 hardcover Photos, 104 pp., $12.95 softcover trace the slow collapse of the peace established A chronicle of George Washington's evolving by William Penn and the emergence of violence Readers of this magazine will be familiar with opinion about slavery and the individual rights by the late 1700s. Topics covered include early Corso's moving poems of life in post-industrial of all people. Washington was the only Found- Swedish settlement, Quaker views, European Western Pennsylvania river towns. Includes ing Father to free his slaves (upon the death of women and Indians, missions and diplomacy, developments in three pages of family photos, four of archival his wife). Weincek traces the the Walking Purchase, justice and retribution, photos, and 10 pages of photos by photo- his life as a plantation owner that led him to and warfare. journalist and fine arts photographer George become an opponent of slavery by the time of Thomas Mendel. his death. George Washington Remembers: Reflections on the French and Indian War Fort Pitt Museum Pennsylvania Caves & Other Rocky Roadside Edited by Fred Anderson By David Dixon Wonders (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004) By Kevin Patrick Somerset Historical Center Photos, illustrations, 176 pp., $35 hardcover (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2004) By Lorett Treese This volume provides a unique look at the Bibliography, appendix, index, 103 b & w illus- Pennsylvania Trail of History Guides series French and Indian war through the words of trations, 21 maps, 256 pp., $19.95 softcover (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2004) George Washington. The book transcribes and look at the state's Color and b & w illustrations, maps, 48 pp., A detailed and informative beautifully reproduces one of Washington's per- $10 softcover nine operating show caves and seven more from sonal accounts of the conflict and his own yesteryear, with stops at other geologic attrac- These concise guides to sites of the Pennsylvania involvement. It includes essays by modern tions such as coal mines, boulder fields, rock Historical and Museum Commission summarize experts that analyze Washington's opinions, the cities, ice mines, and profile rocks. Geology and their historical importance and explain archi- accuracy of his accounts, and the conservation of the document itself. 52 WESTERNPENNSYLVANIA HISTORY I WINTER 2004 history are interwoven to provide a context who are familiar with Harris' photographs for understanding both the prehistoric and might quibble a little with certain omis- auto-era stories. Visitor information is pro- sions, but with one whose body of work is so vided for caves still open to the public. extensive, this is understandable. My own favorite of Teenie's shots is that of a campaign- pany other than Abrams producing a book of ing Bobby Kennedy standing on a soapbox Routes to Roots: A Driving Guide in such quality; if ever there was a perfect marriage Market By the staff of the Steel Industry Heritage Square just as the rain begins to fall. In between a visual artist and a publisher, this is it. the background, an ostensible Republican, clad Corporation The photos presented here span more than in a business suit and Burberry (Homestead: SIHC, 2004) raincoat, grip- 40 years of Harris' career, and range from shots ping his umbrella in one hand Color photos, maps, events calendars, index, and a leather of the famous (and infamous) to the anonymous. briefcase in 228 pp., $20 softcover the other, strides stoically away Literally, they record the history of African- from the scene. The Steel Industry Heritage Corporation has American life from the late 1930s through the One Shot Harris concludes with a fascinating produced a driving guide emphasizing south- 1970s in Pittsburgh's Hill District; figuratively, biographical essay by Deborah Willis, Professor western Pennsylvania's cultural and industrial they constitute a compilation of the rather com- of Photography at New York University's Tisch heritage. The volume is organized into five color- plex social history of every city in America. School of the Arts. Willis, the author of three coded driving routes that take you to different Stanley Crouch, the noted columnist for The books of photographic history, is our leading industrial corridors, roughly corresponding to New York Daily News, and longtime jazz critic authority on African-American photographers as the region's rivers. Full of illustrations and for The Village Voice, wrote the introduction, evidenced by her seminal work, Reflections in maps, the book contains more information than "Steel City Swing." It reads as one might expect Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 is usually found in similar guides. from a writer who did not know Harris and who to the Present (W.W. Norton, 2000). She relates does not know Pittsburgh, and is disappointing that Harris got his nickname, Teenie, when a One Shot Harris: The Photographs of Charles in this regard. He gives us a kind of bebop/ lady from Detroit called him "Teenie Little "Teenie" Harris hip-hop version of American history which con- Lover" when he was a boy, and that when he By Stanley Crouch cludes with verbal descriptions of several of the grew older "the Little Lover part" was omitted. (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2002) photographs - descriptions which the actual And she details Harris' career from the pur- Illustrated, 168 pp., $35 hardcover representations subsequently reveal they decid- chase of his first camera in 1931, to his becom- edly do not need. Crouch refers to Stephen Foster, ing a freelance photographer and then chief t has been nearly six years since the death of for example, as "a Pittsburgh man who became photojournalist for the Pittsburgh Courier, to Charles "Teenie" Harris, and much has the George Gershwin of the middle of the nine- his opening his own studio on Center Avenue in happened during this period to certify the teenth century." If the analogy isn't dubious, the Hill. acclaim Harris' work clearly deserves. His pho- certainly the chronology is. The Teenie Harris story, toward the end of tos have been exhibited; a documentary film has From this point, however, the book positively his life, took on some curious sidelights. I first been made chronicling his life and art; the cul- sparkles; each photo magically drawing the met Mr. Harris on a Penn Avenue street corner mination of a legal battle has determined owner- viewer into the scene: Muhammad Ali (then in the Strip district in the late 1980s. He and ship of his work; and now the publication of this Cassius Clay) sitting for a photographer in his pal, Dennis Morgan, set up shop there on marvelous book, which contains 134 of Harris' 1963; a coal miner in Library, 1947; Duke Saturday mornings, peddling prints of Teenie's images in duotone and one photo of the youthful Ellington signing autographs in 1940; a crowd work. Back then, Harris didn't think of himself Harris himself. It is difficult to imagine a com- protesting in front of Isaly's in the '60s. Those as an "artist"; he told me he was a photographer BOOKREVIEWS 53 INDEX2004 COLUMNS D Across My Desk by Brian Butko Dorsey, James A., 4:42-45 and I bought two of his photos. Dennis Morgan Sandwiches, 1:4 Dumping, Steel, 3:41 Children's television, 2:4 Duquesne, Pa., 3:24 had purchased Harris' collection of negatives in Boyer's Smoothie Bar, 3:4 Duquesne Club, 1:28-29, 33 1986 and then lost them in what Morgan refers Rivers of Steel guidebook and food, 4:4 Duquesne Gardens, 4:37-38 to as "the court drama" in 1994.
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