The images were taken by Penny Weaver, a former reporter for the newspaper "the Delta Democrat-Times", during a visit by Ernest Cole to her house in Alabama, accompanied by a another visitor. She describes Ernest Cole's visit in her letter, which accompanies the 10 negatives and a selection of 5 photographs.

The images of Ernest Cole were published in various South African newspapers and magazines such as DRUM, as well as for the Associated Press, for which he worked as a freelance photographer.
Included here are the negative and contact sheets, as well as some photographic prints of Ernest Cole's body of work before leaving South Africa in 1966.

The photographs in this section were created by Ernest Cole during his life in the USA.