DOWN SOUTH.

New York: R.H. Russell, 1900. 48pp, unpaginated. Folio. B/w photo frontispiece. Further 45 b/w illustrations from photographs, all captioned. Publisher's cloth-backed boards. Brown lettering on front cover with b/w photo plate slightly scuffed as usual. Clean within. Expertly re-cased. Tight, clean within, and overall a very good copy of a book normally found in very used condition. DOWN SOUTH is the first book of photographs by American photographer Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr. (1862 - 1932). It features a grouping of somewhat romanticized photographs of African-American sharecroppers on an Alabama plantation, taken throughout the 1890s, and thereby a provides Eickemeyer's take on conditions in the South. Eickemeyer took the photographs while visiting friends in Mt. Meigs, Alabama although the exact location is not revealed in the publication. Some 35 years after the Civil War, based on Eickemeyer's photographs, conditions for African-Americans seem not to have changed very much in Alabama. Joel Chandler Harris (1848 - 1908) provides the Preface. Harris is most remembered for his collection of Uncle Remus stories for children. …