Outdoor portrait of Mary Ann Walker in a field of wildflowers
Book 2, Page 125 ·1932-1934
Transcription
A large sepia-toned outdoor portrait of a young woman standing in tall wild grasses and goldenrod-like wildflowers, smiling at the camera over her right shoulder. She wears a fitted short-sleeved patterned dress and holds a flowering stem.
Pencil caption beneath the print, in the compiler’s hand:
Mary Ann during High school years in Sav.
AI Notes
Large outdoor portrait of Mary Ann Walker (b. 8 Jun 1918, the youngest of Amy and JP Walker’s children) standing in a field of tall flowering wild grasses and goldenrod-like wildflowers. She smiles back over her right shoulder, holding a flowering stem in her hand. She wears a light short-sleeved patterned dress fitted at the waist. The photograph appears soft-focused, characteristic of a romantic portrait style of the 1930s. Mounted on a lined notebook sheet (six binder-hole punches visible at the right margin). Pencil caption in the compiler’s hand below: ‘Mary Ann during High school years in Sav.’ The family moved from Savannah to Jacksonville in October 1934, so the Savannah portion of Mary Ann’s school years was junior-high/early-secondary (roughly age 14–16); her actual high-school graduation came from Jacksonville High School in 1937, with an interval at St. Mary’s, Raleigh, N.C. in the autumn of 1934.
Mary Ann Walker, b. 8 June 1918, was the youngest of Amy and JP Walker’s children. “Sav.” is Savannah, Georgia, where the Walker family lived until their October 1934 move to Jacksonville; she completed high school at Jacksonville High (graduated 1937) after a brief autumn 1934 stint at St. Mary’s, Raleigh, N.C.