Mailing envelope from Orlando, Feb. 1948; two angel greeting-card cut-outs; a snapshot of an Amy McEwan birthday party; and a calendar fragment
Book 2, Page 211 ·1948–1955
Transcription
A scrapbook page with five items mounted on lined notebook paper with hole-punches at the right edge.
Upper — envelope. A cream business envelope, slightly worn. Circular Orlando, Fla. postmark dated FEB 12 1948 with a wavy-line cancellation across a 3-cent purple Statue of Liberty stamp. Addressed in blue ink in a slanted hand:
To Mrs. J. P. Walker 3698 Hedrick St. Jacksonville 5, Fla.
[The “9” in 3698 has a clearly closed top loop; 3698 is the correct reading. Book 1 page 318’s “3648 Hedrick St.” reference may itself need re-checking, or the family moved.]
Middle left — two die-cut greeting-card figures.
A small square card showing a brown-haired child-angel in a pale-green gown kneeling to feed a brown rabbit, edged with a red-and-white candy-stripe border and tied at the left with a red-and-green ribbon.
A taller cut-out figure of a blond child-angel in a long white gown with folded white wings, standing in three-quarter view, looking down.
Lower left — snapshot. A small black-and-white photograph of a children’s birthday party: a group of small children gathered around a table in a sunlit room, with two adult women in light dresses standing behind. Beside and beneath the print, in pencil with arrows pointing into the group:
Amy McEwan Birthday party
[arrow] Amy
[The repeated annotation indicates the compiler was identifying her granddaughter “Amy McEwan” — pointing her out among the children at her own birthday party. The name does not appear in the otherwise attested list of McEwan grandchildren (Chris b. 1942, Jim, Nancy b. 1946); given the c. 1948 date and the compiler’s identification, this is likely a fourth McEwan grandchild named for her grandmother — to be verified.]
Lower right — calendar fragment. A small slip torn from a desk calendar, two pages side by side. Each page has a header “EVENING” with weather check-boxes (CLEAR / CLOUDY / DRY / RAIN / SNOW / HUMID). Dated headings:
Monday, July 9
Tuesday, July 10
AI Notes
An album page with five small mounted items. At the top, a mailing envelope addressed to Mrs. J. P. Walker in Jacksonville, Fla., postmarked Orlando, Fla., FEB 12 1948, bearing a 3-cent Statue of Liberty stamp. Below at the left, two die-cut greeting-card angel figures (one brunette feeding a rabbit, one blond in a long gown); below the angels, a small black-and-white snapshot of a children’s birthday party indoors, with the compiler’s pencil arrows identifying ‘Amy McEwan’ (her granddaughter) among the children. To the right of the snapshot is a small rectangular piece torn from a desk calendar showing the pages for Monday July 9 and Tuesday July 10 with weather check-boxes. Street number is 3698 Hedrick St. (the 8 is clear). The ‘Amy McEwan’ identified in the birthday-party snapshot appears to be a McEwan grandchild beyond the three (Chris, Jim, and Nancy McEwan) otherwise attested in the album — possibly a fourth McEwan child of Mary Ann + Bo McEwan, born c. 1944–46, named for her grandmother Amy.