Postcard booklet cover reads "Greetings from the Happy Sunny South" with a colored photo reproduction of "Romeo and Juliet in the Cotton Filed". Booklet is post marked New Orleans, Feb 15, 1928, and addressed to Win Hoff Carey, Ohio, with a 2 cent stamp. 32 pages of tinted black and white photo reproductions with images of Southern sharecroppers and their families with captions such as "A Watermelon Feast", "A Good Darkey" and "Down Where the Cotton Blossoms Grow". Made by Curt Telch & Co. Chicago, Ill. Back cover states "This folder contains a set of typical southern darky scenes, reproduced from actual photographs, showing the care-free and happy life of the negro down in Dixie..." Measures apprx 4-1/4"H x 6"W.
150/300 Sold $120.75
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