Photo collage of Pickens family and a tucked-in typed family document
Book 1, Page 648 ·1880–1965
Transcription
A multi-photo album page with handwritten captions in the compiler’s blue cursive. The eight images, top row left to right, then bottom row:
Top row, image 1 (group portrait, sepia): A formally dressed family group, about a dozen people, seated and standing on a porch.
Standing — left to right — Anna Walker Modisette — Mrs. [illegible — “Theos” / “Threr”?] Pickens — Carl Pickens — Guy Young — Howard Young — Arvin Martin — Seated — left to right — Mollie Martin — Theos Pickens and Charity Young — Three children of James Pickens.
[The “Mrs. ___ Pickens” first name remains uncertain; the cursive shape recurs identically in the word “These” two lines later, so it may simply be hard-to-read writing rather than a name. Most plausible readings include “Theos” (Theodore short-form) or a personal nickname. Three children of James Pickens (1817–1887) of West Virginia are named in the seated row: Mollie Martin (m. Oran Martin per p646), Theos / Theresa (?) Pickens, and Charity Young (m. Howard Young per p646).]
Top row, image 2 (sepia outdoor snapshot): A woman in a white blouse seated on the lawn with her young daughter beside her, beneath a flowering bush.
Mrs. J. C. Walker and daughter Anna
Top row, image 3 (sepia outdoor landscape): A wide pastoral view of haymakers / harvesters in a field with rolling hills behind and a haystack at centre.
[Harvesting?] at Fairfield farm W. Va.
Top row, image 4 (colour photograph): An elderly woman in a red armchair beside a small lit Christmas tree.
Mrs. Anne Pickens — age —
Top row, image 5 (brown-toned arched-frame cabinet portrait): A young woman in a late-Victorian high-shouldered gown, three-quarter view.
Anna S. Walker — M — Albert Modisette
Bottom row, image 1 (cabinet-card studio portrait): A seated woman in a dark high-collared dress, hand to chin.
Virginia Pickens Stuart “Aunt Jen”
Bottom row, image 2 (devotional print): A reproduction of Albrecht Dürer’s Praying Hands, monogrammed at the lower margin.
[No caption.]
Bottom row, image 3 (snapshot): Two figures (a man and a woman in a sun-bonnet) seated in an open horse-drawn buggy on a grassy field; a signature in pencil is inked along the lower-right of the print but is illegible.
[No legible caption.]
Lower edge of page — tucked typed document:
A folded white sheet (a typewritten page on lightweight paper, folded so that the upper-right corner is bent under) is inserted under the lower edge of the album page. Only fragments of the typed text show through the fold:
…amily …es [or “…os”] …to …tte
AI Notes
An album page densely arranged with eight photographs across two rows and a folded typed family document tucked under the lower edge. Top row, left to right: (1) sepia group portrait of about a dozen seated and standing adults on a porch with the names listed in blue cursive caption below; (2) small sepia outdoor snapshot of a woman in white blouse seated on a lawn with her young daughter Anna; (3) a wide pastoral landscape of haymakers / harvesters at Fairfield farm, W. Va.; (4) colour photograph of an elderly woman seated in a red armchair beside a small lit Christmas tree (Mrs. Anne Pickens); (5) brown-toned arched-frame studio portrait of a young woman in a late-Victorian high-shouldered gown — Anna S. Walker, who m. Albert Modisette. Bottom row: a cabinet-card studio portrait of Virginia Pickens Stuart (‘Aunt Jen’); a centre print of Albrecht Dürer’s ‘Praying Hands’ devotional print; a black-and-white snapshot of two figures in a horse-drawn buggy. Tucked at the bottom of the page, partly inserted under the lower edge, is a folded typed sheet showing fragmentary right-edge text ‘…amily / …es (or os) / …to / …tte’ (probably an Anna Modisette family genealogy / memorial typescript). Captions on the page read: ‘Fairfield Farm’; ‘Virginia Pickens Stuart’ (matches James Pickens Sr’s daughter Virginia who m. John Stuart per p646); ‘Mollie Martin’; ‘Arvin Martin’ (Arvin is one of Mollie Martin née Pickens’s children, not a Pickens by surname); the elderly woman with the Christmas tree is ‘Mrs. Anne Pickens’ (— age — left blank); Anna S. Walker / Anna Walker Modisette are the same person (an Anna Walker who married Albert Modisette — likely a relative of the compiler’s Walker line); the seated woman with white blouse + daughter Anna is captioned ‘Mrs. J. C. Walker and daughter Anna’. The ‘Mrs. ___ Pickens’ in the standing row of the group portrait remains uncertain — cursive reads approximately ‘Mrs. Theos’ or ‘Mrs. Threr’ but is not confidently legible.
The visible fragments suggest the page is a typed family memorial / genealogy. The final fragment “…tte” likely belongs to “Modisette” (the Anna Walker Modisette line documented elsewhere on this page), suggesting the typescript records the Anna Walker → Albert Modisette descendant line. Full text is concealed by the album binding edge.