Photograph of a young boy stretching in bed, Richmond St., 1938–1940
Book 2, Page 170 ·1938–1940
Transcription
A black-and-white photograph of a young man stretched out across a wood-spool bed, arms flung back over the carved headboard, bare-chested in light-colored trousers; rumpled bedding fills the foreground. The shot is taken from a low angle so that the carved spindles of the headboard tower above him.
Pencil caption beneath the print, in three groups:
Pickens Jr. — 1939–1940 1938–1939 — Richmond St.
AI Notes
Album page with a single large black-and-white photograph mounted at the upper portion of the sheet. The image shows a dark wooden bed with carved spindled headboard and posts; a young man in light-colored trousers is photographed from a low angle stretching backwards across the bed, his arms thrown back over the headboard. Bedding is rumpled across the mattress. A pencil caption runs along the lower margin of the print. The second word reads as a cursive ‘Jr.’ with a long terminal flourish (could be read as ‘Jay’ but the family member is well-attested as James Pickens Walker Jr., so ‘Jr.’ is the intended sense). The Richmond St. address is 3657 Richmond St., Jacksonville, FL, attested elsewhere in the album as the Walker family residence in this period (see the book-002/p116 memoir).
The subject is James Pickens Walker Jr., the compiler’s son. The double date and “Richmond St.” (i.e. 3657 Richmond St., Jacksonville, FL) identify the family residence at this period.