Studio portrait of Emma Dee Walker, Charleston, S.C.
Book 2, Page 102 ·1918-1920
Transcription
A sepia full-length studio portrait of a small girl, dark bobbed hair tied with an oversized white bow, in an elaborate white pleated dress with multiple ruffle layers and lace edging. She stands facing the camera with her right hand resting on the cane back of a small wooden studio chair. White socks and white strap shoes, dark stockings, dark slim legs visible above the socks.
Caption beneath, in pencil; “DEE” in printed block capitals, the place name in mixed case:
DEE - Charleston.S.C.
AI Notes
Album page with a single full-length sepia studio portrait of a small girl (Emma Dee Walker, b. 18 Oct 1915, the compiler’s eldest daughter) at roughly age 3 - 4, standing with her right hand on a small wooden studio chair. She wears an elaborate white pleated dress with multiple ruffle layers and lace trim, a large white hair bow, white socks and white strap shoes, and dark stockings. The print is heavily foxed and faded. Caption hand-printed in pencil beneath the print in mixed case (block ‘DEE’, cursive-influenced ‘Charleston’).
The sitter is Emma Dee Walker (b. 18 October 1915), the compiler’s eldest daughter, named for her paternal grandmother Emma Dee Pickens Walker (1856 - 1933). She would later marry Dr. Robert Lawrence Corbell Jr. of Portsmouth, Va. (see p162). At roughly age 3 - 4, the portrait dates to 1918 - 1920.