Composite album page: 'Corner Cupboard' clipping (1957), family snapshot, Nancy McEwan honor-roll certificate (June 1959), and envelope to Mary Anne Walker
Book 1, Page 421 ·1920s; 1957–1959
Transcription
A composite album page with four pasted items, jumbled in date.
Upper left — Corner Cupboard front sheet, 14 November 1957:
The masthead reads:
The corner cupboard AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
Orlando, Florida, November 14, 1957 Volume Eight Number 52 Price 10 Cents A Copy
To the left of the masthead, a “NATIONAL AWARD WINNER 1957 / National Editorial Association Annual Newspaper Contests” badge is printed.
A pre-printed addressograph slip pasted at the upper right (subscriber label, not connected to the Walker household):
Mrs. W. O. Daley 1920 Lakeside Dr City
[rubber-stamped] 5-22-58
The body of the clipping shows a press photograph (a man on a porch with a woman in striped collar) and the column-foot of a story, partly obscured:
…doans — where they will Jim is one of the third wans to hunt on the hardly wait for the Saturday. Prince is …
A small vertical run of text at the lower left, in a different column:
be ing Jim Orl… tri…
The lower half of the clipping is mounted inverted; visible (upside-down) elements include a “SALE!” appliance display showing:
$13.95 MIXER 7.95 PYREX TABLE 9.95 JUICER
$12.50 VALUE
Upper right — black-and-white snapshot:
Three figures sit close together on what appears to be a sofa or studio bench in front of a louvered door. At the left, a fair-haired teenage boy in a white shirt and dark striped tie smiles broadly toward the others. In the centre, an adult woman with dark hair pulled back wears a dark short-sleeved patterned (lace-pattern) dress and looks affectionately at the young woman on the right. At the right, a teenage girl with dark wavy shoulder-length hair and a light short-sleeved dress with a decorative pleated/buttoned bodice smiles softly. No caption.
[The grouping is consistent with Mary Ann Walker McEwan flanked by her son Christopher Gaillard McEwan (b. 1942) and daughter Nancy Fletcher McEwan (b. 1946), c. late 1950s, but no identifying inscription is present on the page.]
Centre — Honor Roll certificate:
UNITED STATES FLORIDA JUNIOR CHAMBER JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF COMMERCE
Certificate OF Scholastic Achievement
HONOR ROLL STUDENT
THIS CERTIFIES THAT
Nancy McEwan [name written in orange marker, over a faint printed scroll device]
has fulfilled the requirements for high academic achievement by continuous and active scholastic participation and is cited for the good study habits that made this award possible.
Dated this Third day of June, 1959.
[signed] Robert V. Cox, NATIONAL PRESIDENT [signed] Ural Blount, STATE PRESIDENT [signed] Warren P. Sanders, LOCAL PRESIDENT
[signed] Theodore E. Lowery Jr., NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT [signed] Theodore E. Lowery Jr., STATE CHAIRMAN, SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT
MINUTE MAID CORPORATION INDUSTRY SPONSOR
Lower right — small envelope, c. 1920s:
A small pale envelope, franked with a 2-cent carmine Washington stamp (Scott series 1908–1922) at the upper right, cancelled with an indistinct circular postmark. Addressed in dark-ink cursive:
Miss Mary Anne Walker 1535 [illegible] Ave. Jacksonville Florida
AI Notes
A composite album page with four items spanning roughly three decades. Upper left: the front sheet of ‘The Corner Cupboard,’ an independent weekly from Orlando, Florida — Volume Eight, Number 52, November 14, 1957, price 10 cents — bearing a ‘NATIONAL AWARD WINNER 1957’ badge from the National Editorial Association annual. The paper’s pre-printed subscriber label at the top reads ‘Mrs. W. O. Daley, 1920 Lakeside Dr, City’ and is rubber-dated 5-22-58 — so this is not Amy or Mary Ann’s own copy but a Daley-household copy that passed into the family. The lower half of the clipping (a ‘SALE!’ appliance ad — ‘$13.95 MIXER / 7.95 PYREX TABLE / 9.95 JUICER / $12.50 VALUE’) is mounted upside-down relative to the masthead, an artifact of how the original page-2 reverse was pasted in. Upper right: a black-and-white snapshot of three figures sitting close together — a teenage boy in a white shirt and striped tie at left, a dark-haired adult woman in a dark print dress in the middle (looking at the girl with evident affection), and a teenage girl with dark shoulder-length wavy hair in a light short-sleeved dress with a buttoned/pleated bodice at right. The grouping and likely date (late 1950s) is consistent with Mary Ann Walker McEwan flanked by her son Christopher Gaillard McEwan (b. 1942) and daughter Nancy Fletcher McEwan (b. 1946) — but the snapshot bears no caption and the identification cannot be confirmed from the page itself. Centre right: a printed Honor Roll Student certificate from the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce / Florida Junior Chamber of Commerce, Minute Maid Corporation as industry sponsor, made out in orange marker to ‘Nancy McEwan’ and dated ‘Third day of June, 1959.’ Signatures: Robert V. Cox (National President), Ural Blount (State President), Warren P. Sanders (Local President), Theodore E. Lowery Jr. (National Chairman and State Chairman, Scholastic Achievement). Lower right: a small pale envelope franked with a 2-cent carmine Washington stamp (U.S. series 1908–1922) addressed in dark-ink cursive to Miss Mary Anne Walker at an illegibly-rendered Jacksonville, Florida address — given the stamp period and the addressee’s maiden name (Mary Ann Walker, b. 1918, m. McEwan 1940), this envelope must date from the early-to-mid 1920s and is unrelated to the 1957–59 items above; it is the chronologically earliest object on the page.
The 2-cent stamp dates this envelope to roughly 1908–1922; the recipient is the compiler’s daughter Mary Ann Walker (b. 8 June 1918, m. Oswald Beverly McEwan 1940), here addressed in her maiden name. The envelope is therefore the earliest item on the page by some thirty-plus years and unrelated to the 1957–59 ephemera above.