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 (likely Puck Walker himself) 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 the 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. 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.