Pictures and poems of Arkansas
Pictures and Poems of Arkansas is a 1908 photographic book published in Little Rock, Arkansas, by the Sketch Book Publishing Company, with text by Bernie Babcock and O. C. Ludwig, aimed at readers interested in the state's places and countryside. Its plates are black-and-white photographs of cattle in a field, a riverside path under trees, bare winter trees before a university building, and a campus with a main building and lawn. A designer could take from them the tonal range of early halftone photography, strong diagonal compositions of tree lines and paths, and rural-to-campus scenes of the American South around 1900.
