In black and white; an interpretation of southern life
Lily Hardy Hammond's 1914 book In Black and White, published by Fleming H. Revell in New York and Chicago, is an early twentieth-century account of southern life written for a general readership concerned with race and social reform. Its photographs are plain documentary halftones: a crowd of people outdoors in front of a house, a brick residence with a porch and lawn, two rough wooden dwellings, and a schoolroom cooking lesson. A designer might take their sepia-grey tonality, frank street-level framing, and archival caption style as a reference for period realism.
