New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Covers 150 years of African American history. Myer's spare and evocative text is accompanied by many images never seen outside private family albums. In addition to the pictures of former slaves, a lynching, this also shows the wealthy and middle class of the late nineteenth century including Civil War and World War I soldiers, cowboys, sheriffs, settlers of the old west, miners and lumber mill workers, writers, women and more. A beautiful large format book. 166 pages. ISBN: 0-15-100191X.