Studio portrait of Mary Ann Walker; family snapshots at Tryon, 1921
Book 2, Page 100 ·1920–1921
Transcription
Top — a large studio portrait of a fair-haired toddler in a pale dress, head and shoulders turned three-quarters to the viewer’s left. Foxed at the lower edge.
Caption to the right of the portrait, in blue ink:
Mary Ann Walker
Lower left — a small sepia snapshot of two women in pale summer dresses seated on a stone step beside a vine-covered wall, two small children seated between them.
Caption beneath, in blue ink:
A. F. W. Mary Ann — Mary, Jimmy Jr. + Sr. Tryon 1921
Lower right — a small sepia snapshot of two small figures in pale dresses standing close together in front of a stone wall.
Caption beneath, in blue ink:
Mary Ann + Dee
AI Notes
Album page with a large studio portrait of a fair-haired toddler — captioned ‘Mary Ann Walker’ — mounted at the upper right of the sheet, and two smaller sepia snapshots beneath. The left snapshot shows two women and two small children seated on a stone step beside a vine-covered wall; the right snapshot shows two small figures in pale dresses standing close together against a wall. Captions in blue ink beneath each snapshot. The lower caption assigns the left snapshot to Tryon, 1921. The initials on the left snapshot read ‘A. F. W.’ (Amy FitzSimons Walker, the compiler); the right-hand caption reads ‘Mary Ann + Dee’ (Dee = Emma Dee Walker, the compiler’s daughter).
the left-hand caption begins with the compiler’s own initials — A. F. W. for Amy FitzSimons Walker — listing herself, her daughter Mary Ann, and another family group (“Mary, Jimmy Jr. + Sr.”). The right-hand caption identifies the two small figures as her two daughters, Mary Ann and Dee — the family pet-name for Emma Dee Walker (b. 18 Oct 1915).