Poems of cabin and field
Poems of Cabin and Field is a 1899 American poetry collection by Paul Laurence Dunbar, illustrated with photographs by Alice C. Morse and published in New York by Dodd, Mead & Co. Its plates are sepia halftone photographs of rural African American domestic scenes, with figures posed in weathered wooden doorways and seated on steps. Their soft tonal range and plain board backgrounds suggest quiet documentary portraiture, useful for a designer seeking period realism and unposed domestic gesture.
