Photographs: Puck Corbell toddler portraits and family at Benning Hills
Book 2, Page 202 ·1945–1947
Transcription
Four photographs mounted on an album sheet, captioned in graphite pencil.
Upper left — black-and-white snapshot of a toddler standing on a lawn.
Puck Corbell
Upper right — black-and-white snapshot of a toddler seated on a small chair or potty on a porch.
Puck Corbell
Middle left — color print of a young woman in a red sweater crouching behind a small child on a lawn, with a pale ranch house and trees behind them.
Dee & Puck Benning Hills
Puck & “Poochie”
Lower right — color print of a small child in a red hooded coat standing on a step beside a large black dog.
AI Notes
An album page with four photographs. The top row holds two black-and-white snapshots of a toddler boy; below at left is a color print of a young woman crouched behind a small child on a lawn before a pale ranch house; at lower right a color print shows a small child in a red hooded coat beside a large dark dog. Captions are in graphite pencil. The surname is ‘Corbell’; caption first name reads ‘Puck’ (not ‘Pucky’); place name reads as ‘Benning Hills’ — the neighborhood adjacent to Fort Benning in Columbus, GA where the Corbells lived 1944–47 (consistent with the Robin Corbell snapshots on p193 / p197). The toddler is Pickens Walker ‘Puck/Pucky’ Corbell (b. 13 Nov 1944, d. 2 Dec 1953); the woman in the color print is his mother Dee (Emma Dee Walker Corbell).
No caption beneath the lower-right print; the “Poochie” caption from the middle-left photograph carries over and identifies the dog. “Dee” is Emma Dee Walker Corbell, the compiler’s middle daughter; “Puck” is her son Pickens Walker Corbell (b. 13 Nov 1944, d. 2 Dec 1953). “Benning Hills” is the residential area beside Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga., where the family was stationed in the mid-1940s.