Snapshots of Robin at Richmond St., Jacksonville and Benning Hills, Ga., 1944
Book 2, Page 197 ·1944
Transcription
Top row — three photographs:
Left: a small child in shorts crouching on the ground beside a hedge.
Center: a small child squatting in a flowerbed at the edge of a lawn.
Right: a child standing on a lawn holding a garden hose.
Caption beneath in pencil:
Robin — Richmond St. Jax. Fla. 1944
Middle — single photograph:
A small white frame cottage with a curving walkway leading up to the front door.
Caption beneath in pencil:
Carroll’s cottage — Benning Hills Ga. 1944
Bottom row — two photographs flanking a caption:
Left: a child in a checked shirt and shorts standing on a lawn, with a parked car and small (military canvas) tents visible behind.
Center, in pencil:
Robin — Benning Hills Ga. 1944
Right: a child standing on a porch holding what appears to be a garden hose.
AI Notes
Album page with six small black-and-white snapshots arranged in three clusters. Top row of three snapshots shows a young child (Robin) in a yard at Richmond St., Jacksonville. Middle band shows a small white-frame cottage labeled as “Carroll’s cottage” at Benning Hills, Ga. Bottom band shows two photographs of an older child (Robin) flanking a written caption; tents visible in the left-hand frame are consistent with the Fort Benning military camp setting. All captions are in pencil. The Georgia place name is Benning Hills, the neighborhood adjacent to Fort Benning in Columbus, Ga.
Benning Hills is a Columbus, Ga. neighborhood adjacent to Fort Benning. 1944 places these snapshots in the WWII era, consistent with the military camp setting visible in the bottom-left photograph. Robin is Robin Corbell (sometimes “Corbett” in family captions) — son of Emma Dee “Dee/Dee” Walker Corbell + Dr. Robert L. Corbell Jr., the compiler’s grandson; he appears in the parallel Portsmouth / Mt. Vernon / Browning-Mills caption sequence on pp. 193, 198–199. “Carroll” is unidentified by surname.