Today's #TeenieTuesday examines a controversial political billboard that was situated in Pittsburgh's Hill District. This cutline, published in the Pittsburgh Courier newspaper on October 15, 1949, gives historical context to the image: . "Republican Vote-Grabber–Despite the belief of the Pittsburgh Outdoor Advertising Company that a Republican Campaign poster was ‘gruesome’ and in ‘bad taste’ and the practical concurrence of Judge Frank P. Patterson, the Republicans won their fight to place the posters on billboards throughout the city. A sort of extra touch is given to this sweet little white Evangeline a pop-eyed, black baby doll with bulging red lips. Although the days of minstrelsy are far behind us, the insulting caricature will undoubtedly cause Mr. ‘Tice’ Ryan’s adherents in the Negro community to wonder if they’re associating with the right people." . As part of the Teenie Harris Photographs: Elections exhibition, guest curator and City Councilman R. Daniel Lavelle states, “I ...