Sepia portrait photograph: Pickens Walker while at W. & L.
Book 2, Page 135 ·1929–1933
Transcription
A sepia-toned formal portrait photograph of a young man, head-and-shoulders, three-quarter view to the left, in a herringbone-pattern suit jacket, white shirt, and pale necktie. Hair neatly combed back.
Caption beneath the image in blue ink, in the compiler’s hand:
Pickens while at W. & L.
AI Notes
A full-page sepia-toned portrait photograph mounted on a lined notebook page (three punch-holes at right). Head-and-shoulders portrait of a young man with neatly combed dark hair, photographed in three-quarter profile facing the viewer’s left. He wears a herringbone or pinstripe suit jacket over a white shirt and pale necktie. Captioned in blue ink below in the compiler’s hand: ‘Pickens while at W. & L.’ Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, is the referent for ‘W. & L.’; Pickens (James Pickens Walker Jr.) was an undergraduate there 1929-1933.
James Pickens Walker Jr., during his years (1929–1933) as an undergraduate at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia.