Memoir of A.C.L. valuation work and winter in Petersburg; snapshots from Philippi
Book 2, Page 77 ·1914–1915
Transcription
In blue ink at the top, continuing from page 76:
valuation work. He was the engineer and Sam Wood was the lawyer, and they were to establish all right of way lines for A. C. L. R. R. from Richmond to south Fla. We spent that winter in Petersburg Va. and had a happy winter — with kind and charming people. After X’mas Puck and Sam went on to Fla. I went — visited Pickens — to Cain Island.
To the right, beside the photographs, in blue ink:
Puck + Pickens — Philippi, W. Va.
Four sepia snapshots beneath:
- Upper left: An older man in light jacket and hat lifting up a small boy in light clothes; brick row-house behind.
- Upper right: A small boy in white standing on a stoop in front of a paneled door.
- Lower left: A man in dark clothes bending over a small child in a sunlit yard.
- Lower right: A man holding a small boy seated on a dark pony in front of a barn.
AI Notes
Album page continuing the Amy FitzSimons Walker memoir from page 76 (1914 — Puck taken out of the A.C.L. engineering department and put on valuation work). Upper third of the page is text in blue ink; lower two-thirds holds four sepia snapshots labelled ‘Puck & Pickens — Philippi, W. Va.’ Sam Wood is named here as the lawyer paired with Puck (the engineer) on right-of-way work from Richmond to south Florida; the phrasing ‘Puck and Sam went on to Fla.’ is preserved as written. The chronology established by p076 dates this winter to 1914–1915.