Photographs: James Pickens Walker with B. & O. engineers, and family scenes with Anna Walker
Book 2, Page 52 ·1903–1906
Transcription
Three photographs mounted on a lined album page, each captioned in ink.
Upper photograph — large group photograph of approximately eight or nine young men sprawled or seated on the grass of an open field, several in vests and white shirtsleeves, some wearing dark suit coats; behind them a fence and a tree-line. Mounted in an embossed paper folder. Caption beneath, in blue ink:
James Pickens Walker — B. + O. Engineers. With B. + O. — 1903 – 1906.
Lower left photograph — small sepia print of two women in a flowering garden under a tree heavy with white blossoms: one seated in a wooden chair, the other seated on the grass beside her (leaning against the chair). Caption beneath:
Mrs. S. C. Walker + Anna Walker.
Lower right photograph — small sepia print of a massive haystack with a figure in white standing in front of it, and what appear to be hay-pitching poles or rakes in the foreground. Caption beneath:
Mrs. S. C. Walker + J. P. Walker.
AI Notes
Three mounted photographs on a lined album page, each captioned in ink. Upper: a large rectangular group photograph of approximately eight or nine young men sprawled on the grass of a field, with trees and a fence behind, mounted in an embossed paper folder. Lower left: small print of two adult women in a flowering garden — one seated in a wooden chair, the other on the grass beside her. The second woman in the lower-left caption is Anna Walker — James Pickens Walker’s elder sister Anna Strait Walker, b. May 1878 (see p054). Lower right: small print of a figure in white standing in front of a massive haystack, with what appear to be hay-pitching poles in the foreground.
The second name in the lower-left caption is Anna Walker (no ‘y’ descender, two distinct middle humps) — James Pickens Walker’s elder sister Anna Strait Walker (b. Clarksburg, W. Va., May 1878 — per the family memorandum on book-002/p054). The dates 1903–1906 predate Amy FitzSimons’s marriage into the Walker family (20 October 1908), making the alternative ‘Amy Walker’ reading chronologically improbable.