Studio portrait of a U.S. Army captain, Medical Corps
Book 2, Page 169 ·1942-1945
Transcription
A sepia-toned vignetted studio head-and-shoulders portrait of a young officer in U.S. Army uniform, smiling broadly at the camera.
He wears the wool overseas cap (garrison cap) bearing the twin silver bars of a captain on the left front. His tunic carries the lapel disks of a U.S. Army officer: U.S. on the right collar and the caduceus insignia of the Medical Corps on the left, with a smaller caduceus on the lapel below. A circular shoulder patch is faintly visible at the lower right of the print.
A faint pencilled signature or studio mark sits in the lower-right margin of the photograph; it remains illegible even at high resolution.
AI Notes
Album page with a single sepia-toned vignetted studio portrait of a smiling young officer in U.S. Army uniform. He wears the overseas (garrison) cap with twin captain’s bars on the left front, an officer’s tunic with ‘U.S.’ brass on the right collar disk and the Medical Corps caduceus on the left lapel disk, with a smaller caduceus visible at the lower lapel. A circular shoulder patch is faintly visible at the lower right. A pencil signature in the lower-right margin of the print (presumably the studio mark) is too faint to read with confidence. No caption is written on the page itself. Subject is presumed James Pickens Walker Jr., the compiler’s son, who served as an Army medical officer in WWII.
No caption is written on the page. The subject is almost certainly James Pickens Walker Jr. (b. 1912), the compiler’s son, in his Army Medical Corps uniform – he served as a medical officer during the Second World War. The portrait dates from his captaincy, ca. 1942-1945.