Photographs of Robin Corbell at Mt. Vernon (1941–1942) and Benning Hills (1944)
Book 2, Page 193 ·1941–1944
Transcription
Upper row — three photographs:
Left: a small child in a dark coat holding hands with a uniformed soldier (Bob Corbell, in Army uniform) on a wooded lawn.
Center: a man cradling a baby on his shoulder. Caption written directly on the photograph in blue ink:
Dee + Robin 1941.
Right: a woman in a dark coat standing on a leaf-strewn lawn beside a small child.
Captions beneath the photographs, in blue ink:
Robin + Bob — Mt. Vernon Mt. Vernon Va. 1942
Dee + Robin Mt. Vernon Va. 1942
Lower cluster — four photographs:
Left: a small child seated on a porch beside a wicker chair.
Center upper: two small children seated together on stone steps.
Right: a woman bending toward a small child, with a black dog beside them.
Center lower: a man kneeling on a lawn beside a small child.
Captions beneath the photographs, in blue ink:
Robin — Benning Hills
Robin — 18 months Portsmouth Va.
- Robin + Dee Benning Hills — 44
Amy + Pickens with Robin
AI Notes
Album page with seven small black-and-white snapshots arranged in two clusters, each captioned in blue ink. The upper cluster (three photographs) shows Robin Corbell at Mount Vernon, Virginia, with his parents Bob and Dee Corbell in 1941–1942. The lower cluster (four photographs) shows Robin at 18 months in Portsmouth, Virginia, and at the “Benning Hills” neighborhood (adjacent to Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia, where the Corbells were posted during Dr. Corbell’s Army service) in 1944, including a snapshot of Amy and J. P. “Pickens” Walker (Robin’s maternal grandparents) with him. Robin is a Corbell grandchild — son of Dr. Robert Corbell Jr. and Emma Dee Walker Corbell; the adults in the middle-bottom photograph are Amy and Pickens (the compiler and her husband, Robin’s maternal grandparents).