Photograph collage: McEwan, Walker, and Corkell family snapshots with the McEwan wedding clipping
Book 1, Page 400 ·1940–1953
Transcription
A page of mounted photographs and one newspaper clipping with handwritten captions in blue ink.
Top row, left to right:
A small print of a woman in a dark coat with a child seated in front of her, beside a small print of a man (in dark clothes with white sleeves) holding an infant; captioned beneath each in blue ink:
Dee Corkell + Robin
Dee Corkell + Puck
Next, a print of two boys and a young girl seated on a house stoop:
Puck — Dee — Robin Corkell — 1953
To the right, a print of a small child kneeling in snow with a snowball in mittened hands:
Dee Corkell
Mounted below that, a print of a young man (in suit jacket) standing in front of a house; captioned with an arrow:
J. P. Walker + Robin
Middle row:
A large clipped newspaper photograph beneath the dateline JACKSONVILLE JOURNAL, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, showing the bride and groom in formal attire under a church arch:
LIEUT. AND MRS. O. B. M’EWAN
Lieut. and Mrs. Oswald Beverly McEwan are pictured leaving the Church of the Good Shepherd immediately after their wedding which was a brilliant event of Wednesday evening.
Mrs. McEwan was the former Miss Mary Ann Walker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Pickens Walker.
Lieut. McEwan and his bride will make their home for the present in Alexandria, La., where he is stationed at Camp Livingston.
—Staff Photo by Leo Witt
To its right, a vertical strip of small prints — a woman seated with a small child on her lap, and a young man in uniform seated on house steps holding an infant — sharing a single caption underneath:
Mary Ann + Chris — Bo McEwan + Chris
Below them, a print of a barefoot toddler standing in a yard:
Jim
To the right of the clipping, a small print of a girl in white dress on a swing-set (uncaptioned); below it a vertical print of a man on a lawn with a small child:
[uncaptioned snapshots, of the McEwan children outdoors]
Mounted across the right side, a print of a young man in light suit standing on a lawn, captioned beneath:
Robert L. Corkell III
Below that, a large studio portrait of a young woman in light evening dress with embellished neckline and waistband, seated, gazing right; captioned in blue ink:
Ann Seymour Knight m. June 26th 1941 James Pickens Walker — Jr.
Bottom row:
Three formal school-portrait prints of children in jackets and dress shirts, captioned in blue ink across their lower edges:
Christopher Gaillard McEwan — B. June 27, 1942
Nancy Fletcher 1946 McEwan — B. Sept 13, 19[46]
James Walker McEwan — B. April 25, 1949
AI Notes
A densely mounted album page of black-and-white photographic prints surrounding the Jacksonville Journal wedding clipping of Lieut. and Mrs. Oswald Beverly McEwan (1940). Captions are hand-lettered in blue ink along the lower edge of each print or strip of prints. Several captions are partially trimmed by the print or photo-corner mounts. Photos include the three McEwan children (Christopher, Nancy, and James), the J. Pickens Walker Jr. / Ann Seymour Knight portrait pair, and four prints of Corkell family members (Dee, Robin, Puck, and Robert L. Corkell III) — a connected family whose relationship to the McEwans/Walkers is not stated on the page.
The page mixes the compiler’s daughter Mary Ann’s immediate family (her husband Oswald Beverly “Bo” McEwan, their three children Chris/Nancy/Jim) with portraits of her brother J. Pickens Walker Jr. and his bride Ann Seymour Knight, plus four photographs of Corkell family members. The Corkells’ precise relationship is not annotated; Robert L. Corkell III is captioned formally while the children (Dee, Robin, Puck) carry only first names — likely his children. “Bo” is the husband Oswald Beverly McEwan’s familiar form. “Chris” appears in both the “Mary Ann + Chris” and “Bo McEwan + Chris” captions, referring to Christopher Gaillard McEwan as a child.
The surname spelled “Corkell” throughout this page’s captions is rendered “Corbell” everywhere else in the album (pages 383, 392, 393, 398) — the same family. The wedding clipping is undated on the page, but the Walker family page (392) records the marriage as 14 May 1941, and Mary Ann’s new home at Camp Livingston near Alexandria, Louisiana, places the wedding at the start of the Louisiana Maneuvers — the ~400,000-soldier mock-war exercises of summer–fall 1941 that the U.S. Army used to ready itself for entry into the European war.