Snapshots of Pickens Walker in Richmond; memoir of summers at Cain Island and Philippi
Book 2, Page 76 ·1914–1915
Transcription
Top — two snapshots:
- Left: A young woman with a baby in a wicker carriage in front of a brick row-house.
- Right: Interior shot — Pickens Jr. as a small boy standing beside a draped wicker carriage.
Caption beneath, in pencil:
Pickens + his grand cousin Walker.
In the middle of the page, in pencil:
While in Richmond we would go in the summer to Cain Island + then to Philippi. When Pickens was 2½ he got sick on Cain Island and we spent most of that summer in W. Va. —
that fall[interlined above and below: “In the fall of 1914 — yes —”] Puck was taken out of the engineering dept. of A. C. L. and put on
[The passage continues on page 77.]
Bottom — two snapshots:
- Left: Pickens Jr. and another small boy seated by a fountain or planter on a brick patio; a woman seated behind in a white dress.
- Right: Pickens Jr. standing on a sidewalk beside a young girl in a striped dress in front of a row-house.
Captions beneath, in pencil:
Pickens — Mrs. W. + Wilson Wood
Pickens + Margaret Talbot
AI Notes
Album page with two pairs of snapshots — two at the top showing the toddler Pickens Jr. (the compiler’s son, b. 5 Jan 1912) standing in front of a brick row-house and an interior shot with him beside a draped wicker carriage; two at the bottom — Pickens beside a fountain or wall planter with Mrs. W. and Wilson Wood, and Pickens beside Margaret Talbot on a sidewalk. Pencilled captions in Amy’s hand under each cluster, with a paragraph of memoir text between. The interlined date reads ‘In the fall of 1914’ (consistent with Pickens Jr.'s 1912 birth and the narrative reference to him being ‘2½’ the prior summer); ‘Wilson Wood’ is a person, not a place. Year 1914 also dates Puck’s transfer out of the A. C. L. engineering department to roughly the eve of America’s WWI mobilization era.