Three photographs of a country lane and farmhouse porches
Book 2, Page 56 ·1900–1920
Transcription
The page bears no clearly legible transcribable text. A very faint, badly faded pencil caption appears to the right of the bottom-left photograph but cannot be read with confidence.
Three sepia photographs are mounted on a lined album leaf:
Upper left — a curved dirt or gravel lane sloping away between dense trees and shrubbery.
Center right — a long covered porch with several wicker rocking chairs along the railing and potted ferns at the base of each post.
Lower left — an angled view of a porch with a hanging plant, a bench or seat against the railing, and a small wheeled wagon or child’s cart visible on the porch floor.
AI Notes
Three sepia photographs mounted on a lined album page. Upper left: a curved dirt lane disappearing into woods. Center right: a long covered porch with wicker rocking chairs along the railing and potted ferns at the base of each post. Lower left: an angled view of a porch with a hanging plant, a bench/seat against the railing, and a small wheeled wagon or child’s cart visible on the porch floor. A very faint pencilled caption is visible in the blank lower portion of the page beside the bottom-left photograph but is too rubbed and faded to transcribe with any confidence. Setting likely Fairfield farm at Overfield, W. Va. or the Walker home at Philippi, W. Va., on the basis of the surrounding pages (pp. 53–55 describe the Walker family’s W. Va. residences).