Six snapshots of the Walker children with cousins at Mount Hope, Fairview, and Clarksburg
Book 2, Page 87 ·1920–1922
Transcription
Top row — a group of seven children in winter coats and hats posed outdoors.
Caption beneath, in pencil:
Pickens + Dee with the Waite children
Middle row — two snapshots side by side.
- Left: Two small children with an older child crossing a rustic footbridge over a stream.
- Right: Three children seated on a fallen log under live oaks.
Caption beneath the pair, in pencil:
Pickens — Dee + Mary Ann — and Amy Allston at Mount Hope and Fairview —
Lower left — a small girl in dark dress standing beside a brick column or wall.
Caption beneath, in pencil:
Mary Ann — Clarksburg W. Va.
Lower right — a formal vignette studio portrait of a curly-haired child in a white dress.
Caption beneath, hand-lettered in pencil:
MARY ANN (about 2)
AI Notes
Album page with six sepia snapshots arranged in three rows on a lined three-hole sheet, with pencilled captions in Amy Walker’s hand between the rows. Top: a group of seven children in winter coats and hats posed outdoors. Middle: a pair of snapshots — two small children with an older girl on a rustic footbridge over a stream (left), and three children seated on a fallen log under live oaks (right). Bottom: a small girl in a dark dress standing by a brick wall or column (left), and a formal studio vignette portrait of a curly-haired child in a white dress (right). The lower-right portrait has its caption hand-lettered in pencil as ‘MARY ANN (about 2)’ — i.e., the sitter’s age, consistent with Mary Ann b. 8 June 1918 and dating the studio portrait c. 1920. The lower-left caption reads ‘Mary Ann — Clarksburg W. Va.’
The parenthetical “about 2” gives the sitter’s age, dating the portrait c. 1920 (Mary Ann Walker b. 8 June 1918).