Four snapshots of James Pickens Walker Jr. at Cain Island and Richmond, 1913, with memoir continuation
Book 2, Page 71 ·1912–1914
Transcription
A line of text across the top of the page in blue ink, continuing the memoir from the previous page:
also Richmond Belt Line — and piers at Norfolk — and double tracks from [Parlton] N. C. to S. Selma N. C. We were in Richmond for 2 years.
[The place name reads as “Parlton” in the cursive but is not a known town. The Atlantic Coast Line main line between Petersburg and Florence ran through Rocky Mount, Wilson, and Selma; the segment “to S. Selma” suggests an adjacent main-line town to the north. Candidates include Rocky Mount or Wilson; the writer’s hand on this word is unclear.]
Four sepia snapshots arranged in two rows.
Upper left — a man (likely Puck Walker) seated in a high-backed wooden chair outdoors in a white shirt and tie, holding the baby Pickens on his lap; broad trees behind. Caption beneath in blue ink:
Cain Island 1913
Upper right — a woman in a wide-brimmed hat and white dress, bent behind a small toddler standing barefoot on a stretch of sand at the marsh edge. Caption beneath in blue ink:
Cain Island 1913
Lower left — a fair-haired toddler boy in a white shirt and dark short pants standing on a brick walk beside a wooden porch with a downspout running down the wall behind him. Caption beneath, in blue ink:
Picture in his first pants suit. Richmond [Va.]
Lower right — a small boy in a white shirt and shorts standing on a lawn, hands at his sides. Caption beneath, in blue ink:
Richmond V[a]
AI Notes
Album page (lined three-ring binder sheet) with four sepia snapshots arranged in two rows: at upper left, a man (Puck Walker) seated in a wooden chair outdoors holding the baby Pickens on his lap with large trees behind; at upper right, a woman in a wide-brimmed hat (likely Amy) bending behind a small toddler standing on the sand at a marsh edge; at lower left, a fair-haired toddler boy in a white shirt and dark short pants standing on a brick walk beside a wooden porch with a downspout; at lower right, the same small boy standing on a lawn. Each snapshot has a blue-ink caption beneath it. A handwritten line across the top of the page continues the memoir from page 070, listing other Atlantic Coast Line jobs Puck had charge of from Richmond — the Richmond Belt Line, piers at Norfolk, and double tracks from an unclear North Carolina town to S. Selma N.C. The family stayed in Richmond two years. [corrected upper-left photo description (it is a man, not a woman, holding the baby — likely Puck Walker himself); corrected upper-right photo (toddler is standing on sand at the marsh edge, not on a stool). The disputed place name reads as ‘Parlton’ in the script — not a known NC town; could be a misspelling of an ACL main-line station (Rocky Mount, Wilson) but left bracketed.]