Catfish Alley: Charleston

George Biddle

1936

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This aquatint print is overall reddish in color. It represents abstract but anthropomorphic forms resembling folds of skin, eyes, and a bulbous nose. The image is centered, extending beyond the top and bottom of the plate, with vacant space colored by the plate at its left and right.
Animal Locomotion, Eadwaerd Muybridge, collotype
A barren field fills the foreground; its far edge is lined with tall weeds. At the center of the image, against a partly cloudy sky, is a billboard that bears the text, “For Sale Lots for Colored Call HE24457 Now”. Beside the sign are wire laden telephone poles.
America of Salem, Attributed to Michele Felice Cornè, watercolor on paper