Title: Seeing the new South : race and place in the photographs of Ulrich Bonnell Phillips /
Authors: Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, 1877-1934; Bixel, Patricia Bellis, 1956-; Smith, John David, 1949-
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell,; African Americans Southern States History Pictorial works.; Plantation life Southern States History Pictorial works.; Southern States Social conditions Pictorial works.; Southern States Social life and customs Pictorial works.
Abstract: "Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1877-1934) established a reputation as one of the early twentieth century's foremost authorities on the history of African American slavery and the Old South ... Phillips based his writing on an array of primary sources, including a growing collection of photographs he accumulated during his research. These images of plantation crops and machinery, agricultural scenes, distinctive architecture, white southerners, and former slaves and their descendants collectively record much about life and labor in the rural South three decades before the Farm Security Administration undertook its own documentary projects during the New Deal"--Jacket.
Contents: "A wooden box -- filled with photographs and plates" : Ulrich Bonnell Phillips's visual archive -- "Impressions are imperfect and his conclusions open to challenge" : reading Ulrich Bonnell Phillips's photographs -- The photographs -- Appendix : Phillips's annotations to photographs.