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A large sepia cabinet-card studio portrait of a bald infant in a long white gown, seated against a floral-upholstered armchair.

Studio imprint printed across the lower margin of the card mount:

THORNTON & BARRETTE, Artist, CLARKSBURG, WEST VA.

AI Notes

Album page with a single large cabinet-card photograph mounted at center. The card is a sepia studio portrait of a bald, round-faced infant in a long white gown, seated upright in a floral-upholstered armchair. The studio imprint is printed in dark ink across the lower margin of the card mount. No handwritten caption appears on this page — confirmed at full resolution; the subject is unidentified. The Clarksburg, West Virginia origin matches the West Virginia side of the family — James Pickens Walker Sr. was born 27 April 1883 in Overfield, West Virginia (see his 1950 baptism certificate at book-003/p023); this cabinet card’s date (1885–1900) and West Virginia provenance are consistent with the infant being JPW Sr. himself or a Walker sibling/cousin from the same generation, photographed at the family’s regional studio.

The subject is not captioned on this page and is unidentified. The Clarksburg, W. Va. studio imprint suggests a sitter from outside the immediate South Carolina–Georgia–Florida family circle; the connection to the FitzSimons or Walker line is not given here.