Photograph: Ann Knight Walker and her bridesmaids

A large sepia-toned wedding portrait mounted to fill the album page, oriented sideways (the photo’s top is at the right edge of the page). The bride, in a long white gown with a very long tulle veil pooling at her right side, stands at center holding a cascading bouquet of white blossoms; she is flanked by seven attendants in long pale gowns and matching wide-brimmed hats, each holding a small bouquet. The setting is a garden with flowering shrubs (oleander or hydrangea?) and a split-rail fence behind. Pencilled caption above the photograph reads ‘Ann Knight Walker and her bridesmaids.’ Along the right margin of the page, a list of given names is written sideways in pencil, identifying the attendants in order. The wedding is documented by the engraved invitation on page 190 (Ann Seymour Knight to James Pickens Walker, Jr., Church of the Good Shepherd, Jacksonville, June 26, 1941). ‘Ann Knight Walker’ in the caption is the bride’s married form.

The right-margin list is written in pencil, sideways, and very faint against the page. The first name reads clearly as “Dee” - the family nickname for Emma Dee Walker Corbell, the groom’s elder sister (b. 18 Oct 1915; see p102). The second is “Mary Ann” - Mary Ann Walker, the groom’s younger sister (m. Lt. O. B. McEwan one month earlier on 14 May 1941; see pp187 - 188). The remaining four (Carol, Katie, Anne, Maxine) appear to be friends of the bride. The seventh name has resisted clean transcription: the final word reads “Lilly” or “Libby”; the word immediately preceding it could be either “great aunt” (a kinship modifier) or a surname like “Goldsmith”.