Kemble's coons : a collection of Southern sketches
Kemble's Coons is a late nineteenth-century book of sketches by E. W. Kemble, published in New York by R.H. Russell in 1897 and aimed at a general American readership. Its pictures are pen-and-ink drawings of Black children and adults in Southern settings, with captions that render dialect speech; a designer could take from them the loose, hatched line work and the close, half-length character portraits.
