The written comments Eudora Welty made on the backs of individual photographs are in parentheses and quotation marks. The comments she made in a January 19, 1983, interview with Patti Black are cited parenthetically.

Volume I

1. Eudora

Negative #	Caption	Box #
1	(Father and Mother would have deliberately put the calendar in to show date.),	94a
2		94a
3		94a
4		94a
5		94a
6		94a
7	(Rocking chair in West Virginia; hand of mother's cousin Mary Lee Upshur.),	94a
8		94a
9		94a
10		94a
11		94a
12		94a
13		94a
14		94a
15		94a
16		94a
17		94a
18		94a
19	(Playing with a watch. Bonnets by Mademoiselle Raffeau of New Orleans.),	94a
20		94a
21		94a
22		94a
23		94a
24	("My mothers cousin/Mary Lee Upshur/daughter of her father's sister/Stella Andrews Upshur/of Norfolk, Va./visiting the Andrews farm/near Clay, West Va,/while Mother was there./I'm the baby in the/wheelbarrow. About 1910"),	94a
25		94a
26		94a
27	(I was told this was my first step.),	94a
28		94a
28a		94a
29	("Eudora/in front of 741 N.Congress"),	94a
30		94a
31		94a
32		94a
33		94a
34	(I was crazy about watches. All children are I guess.)	94a
35	("Body and pants" were what they called these undergarments.),	94a
36		94a
37	(Can you imagine anything so naive? I was not too crazy about dolls like you were supposed to be.)	94a
38		94a
39		94a
40		94a
41		94a
42		94a
43	(I liked this doll; it made a noise when you turned it over.),	94a
44		94a
45	(Chickens were my best friends. Had cow, chickens on North Congress. The house had a pasture behind it.),	94a
46		94a
47		94a
48		94a
49	("Eudora/in backyard of 741 N. Congress St.),	94a
50		94a
51		94a
52	(Loved banjos because my uncles in West Virginia played them.),	94a
53		94a
54	(Grandpa's farm in Ohio),	94a
55		94a
56	(with rabbit; front porch North Congress. Given rabbits at Easter.),	94a
57		94a
58		94a
59	(Mrs. Kausler's fence. If your ball went over the fence, it was forever.),	94a
60	(Will the party never come?),	94a
61		94a
62		94a
63		94a
64		94a
65		94a
66		94a
67		94a
68		94a
69		94a
70	(Eudora and Edward with Withers house in background.)	94a
71	(me on my Princess bicycle, age 8 or 9),	94a
72		94a
73		94a
74		94a
75		94a
75a		94a
76		94a
77		94a
78		94a
79	(Graduated from high school at Jackson High. Photo taken on Edgewood, where they lived while Pinehurst house was being built. Graduation party given at Pinehurst site.),	94a
80		94a
81		94a
82		94a
83	(in pants; on roof of Pinehurst house),	94a
84		94a
85		94a
86		94a
87		94a
88		94a
89		94a
90		94a
91	(Elsee Ann Smeth(?) could play "Carolina in the Morning." I met her on the train.),\ 2 (With father on insurance trip. Sunset Limited, N.O.to San Francisco. Bought dress in N.O. for trip--black chiffon. Went in Mother's place at last minute.),	94a
92	(With father on insurance trip. Sunset Limited, N.O. to San Francisco. Bought dress in N.O. for trip--black chiffon. Went in Mother's place at last minute.)	94a
93		94a
94		94a
95		94a
96		94a
97	(Eudora could play the ukelele.),	94a
98		94a
99	(Empress Eugenie hat came out in the 1920s.),	94a
100	(University of Wisconsin clothes: possum coat, 1928 or 29),	94a
101		94a
102		94a

2. Eudora and the boys

Negative #	Caption	Box #
103		94b
104		94b
105		94b
106		94b
107		94b
108		94b
109		94b
110		94b
111	("Eudora and Edward"),	94b
112		94b
113		94b
114		94b
115	(straw or matting rug),	94b
116		94b
117	(Easter clothes with basket),	94b
118		94b
119	(new car, maybe Oakland),	94b
120	(Boy scouts and picture hat 1925--Taken before house was up.),	94b
121		94b
122		94b
123	(first snow I can remember falling),	94b
124	(I did play baseball. This is obviously posed in my flowered hat.),	94b
125	(Walter was always mischievious.),	94b
126	(With Father's half-sister, Miss Grace Welty, from Ohio. My dress designed by Charlie Pierce at the Emporium.),	94b
127	(Roman stripe, low belt),	94b
128		94b
129		94b
130		94b
131		94b

3. Eudora in family group

Negative #	Caption	Box #
132	(Mad at the new baby, of course! Not too happy.),	94b
133	(Edward was a very affectionate little boy after he got big enough to play with.),	94b
134	(Here comes Walter! Standing alone, on Davis School grounds.),	94b
135		94b
136		94b
137		94b
138		94b
139		94b
140		94b
141	(Taken before we moved in on Pinehurst, sometime around high school graduation),	94b
142		94b

4. Celebration and Holidays

Negative #	Caption	Box #
143	("Eudora/on Princess bicycle/passing Davis School"),	94b
144	(Armistice Day, 1914. Edward toothless; Walter the driver. All these flags!),	94b
145		94b
146	(Christmas age 5),	94b
147	(Christmas age 3),	94b
148	(Those clowns! I wish I had them now--German, wooden, everthing clung to everything else; I really love acrobats! Japanese dolls--looks like 3 dolls.), 149, 150 (Christmas tree--probably things I had made--popcorn and paper chains),	94b
149	(Christmas tree--probably things I made--popcorn and paper chains	94b
150	(Christmas tree--probably things I made--popcorn and paper chains	94b
151		94b
152		94b
153		94b
154		94b
155	("Eudora's birthday party at Easter/about 1918?"),	94b

5. Grandparents, aunts, uncles

Negative #	Caption	Box #
156		94b
157		94b
158		94b
159		94b
160		94b
161	(Eudora Cardin),	94b
162		94b
163		94b
164	("Grace Mary Welty/my father Christian Welty's/half-sister./Photo by him"),	94b
165	("My father's half-brother/Arthur Welty/on the Welty farm in Ohio."),	94b
166	("In the swing on Welty farm/I don't recognize the people.")	94b
167	("My father's father/Jefferson Welty,/ his step-mother,/& his half-sister,/Grace Mary Welty/on porch of Welty/farm near/Logan, Ohio./My father's snapshot,/early/1900s."),	94b
168	("Grace Mary Welty/Christian's half-sister, Left./Right may be her mother/and Christian's stepmother. I think probably my father took it around/1900. This is the farm near/Bremen,Ohio."),	94b
169		94b
170	("Moses and John Andrews with Mary Lee Upshur/in West Virginia/(can't identify who's in shadow in chair."),	94b
170a		94b
171		94b
172	(On North Congress with Mother's aunt from Va., Stella Andrews Upshur.),	94b
173	(In Ohio with grandfather, Jefferson Welty),	94b
174	(In West Virginia. Mother and her 4 brothers and her mother, Eudora Carden Andrews. Top: Moses, Carl; bottom: John, Edward Columbus ("Bus"). Photos taken by William Augustus Andrews ("Gus"))	94b
175		94b
176		94b
177	(Jefferson Welty's farm between Logan & Bremen, Ohio (in southern Ohio)),	94b
178	(Norfolk, Va., Edward in buggy; the old lady is mother's father's mother, Mrs. Andrews; Margaret Upshur, Stella's daughter. Stella's family lived in Norfolk. Edward (Ned) Andrews left home in Norfolkand went to West Virginia and married Eudora Carden there.),	94b
179	(Clay banks on Terry Rd. Everyone in total exhuastion. Earluth and Valeria Epting (Lutheran minister's daughters), playmates. Jane Percy Slack, 771 N. Congress),	94b
180	(Knees of Mrs.Slack with Jane Percy),	94b
181	(Ohio with Jefferson Welty. My father didn't have a big family. His mother died when he was 7. His father remarried and had 2 other children.),	94b
182	(Welty barn in background; we went every summer to see both families--Ohio and West Virginia.),	94b
183		94b
184	(Jane Percy Slack, Ida Lemly Slack--two redheaded girls.),	94b
185		94b
186	(courtship picture of mother and father somewhere in West Virginia. Probably with her friends.),	94b
187	(with Aunt Grace, looks like our Studebaker),	94b
188	(Stella Carden in middle, cousin of mother's),	94b
189	(Ohio, father's family; stepmother in center.),	94b
190	(with Mrs. Slack and the Slack girls),	94b
191	(Picnic that the Withers had out in the country),	94b
192		94b
193		94b
194		94b

6. Eudora and Friends

Negative #	Caption	Box #
195		94b
196	(All in Smith Park with the Epting girls. I'm certainly wearing a freakish outfit.),	94b
197		94b
198	("Birthday party (Eudora age 3)/Frog-in-the-middle, played/in the pasture on/ Congress St./(the Stockett's?the/Kausler's?)/(Sonny Withers and William B. Hamilton the little boys looking around)"),	94b
199	("Frog in the middle" on vacant lot on N. Congress between Wither's & Campbell's houses),	94b
200	(9 yr. old birthday party. Edward, Joe Jeff Power, Mrs. Seawright, Jane Percy Slack (behind), Bessie Smith (lived up street), Sara Virginia Thompson, a good friend, me, Elizabeth Heidelberg. Walter in front.)	94b
201	(Old Band stand, Smith Park. Everyone used to play down there. Families would go at night; stroll down and hear music.),	94b
202	(Sonny Withers and Bill Hamilton facing camera (Bill became a professor at Duke) "Frog in the middle" is Eudora)--This note seems to fit #198--	94b
203	(Sonny Withers & his horse cart; holding hat--speeding),	94b
204		94b
205	("On Congress Street, children from next door belonging to Prof. & Mrs. J. P. Clark. L to R, Mary Grace, Leonard, and Ruth, standing on the running board of our car."),	94b
206	("Jane Percy Slack"),	94b
207	("Don't recognize house. (Might be our dog)"),	94b
208	("Ida Lemly Slack/Jane Percy Slack/neighbors on Congress St."),	94b
209	("In front of Davis School on N. Congress St. Jane Percy Slack? holding teddy-bear.")	94b

Volume 2

7. Mother

Negative #	Caption	Box #
210	("My mother about 1925 where the house was being laid out on Pinehurst St."),	95a
211	("Mother/1119 Pinehurst/about 1926"),	95a
212	("Mother on a Vicksburg bluff in the '20s."),	95a
213	("Probably a West Virginia scene, on Elk River. It looks like my mother standing at Left on the raft. I imagine my father took the picture, in their courting days. 1903 or 1904."),	95a
214		95a
215		95a
216		95a
217	(Just getting over illness, soon after illness),	95a
218	(at Davis School),	95a
219		95a
220		95a
221		95a
222		95a
223		95a
224	(our Studebaker),	95a
225		95a
226	(in garden with Stella Carden),	95a
227		95a
228		95a
229		95a
230		95a
231		95a
232		95a
233	(sowing grass),	95a
234		95a
235	(with Eleanor,Edward's wife),	95a
236		95a
237		95a
238		95a
239	(playing solitaire. A lot of these reflect the worry of war time.),	95a
240	(No one else grew delphiniums in Mississippi.),	95a
241		95a
241a	This image was previously numbered 265a.	95a
241b	This image was previously numbered 265b.	95a
241c	This image was previously numbered 265c.	95a
241d	This image was previously numbered 265d.	95a
241e	This image was previously numbered 265e.	95a
241f	This image was previously numbered 265f.	95a
241g		95a

8. Father

Negative #	Caption	Box #
242	("A West Virginia lumber camp where my father Christian Welty had a summer job the year he met mother, Chestina Andrews about 1902 or 1903. My father took the picture, I feel sure--He was a constant picture taker."),	95a
243	("I feel sure this is a scene at the lumber camp in West Virginia where my father went to work one summer and this was the summer he met my mother. Early 1900s. (My father took all the photos in this set.")	95a
244		95a
245	("I think the man is my father, perhaps in West Virginia"),	95a
246		95a
247		95a
248	("Christian Webb Welty/my father/on front porch of/the home at 741 N.Congress. (Probably about 1905)")	95a
249	("My father (without hat) on one of his trips taking Lamar Life Insurance Agents who had won the trip as a prize in the field. This was on the trip to California by train. (He took me too.)"),	95a
250	("The Lamar Life agents at a train stop on their trip West. My father is at right in white shirt, wearing light colored cap."),	95a
251	(Father, maybe at Trout Lake, Wisc.--we went on insurance trip),	95a
252	(Tower in V-burg Park),	95a
253		95a
254	(our yard),	95a
255	(We always had a big dog of some sort.)	95a

9. Mother and Father

Negative #	Caption	Box #
256	(Mother and Father)	95a
257	(with Stella Carden)	95a
258	(Swinging in Livingston Park),	95a
259	(Lattice work, Mother's rose garden on Pinehurst),	95a
256	(Mother and Father),	95a
257	(with Stella Carden),	95a
260	(Made with my father's big camera. I must have taken these photos.),	95a
261		95a
262		95a
262		95a
264		95a
265		95a

10. Edward

Negative #	Caption	Box #
266		95a
267		95a
268		95a
269		95a
270		95a
271		95a
272		95a
273		95a
274		95a
275		95a
276		95a
277		95a
278		95a
279		95a
280		95a
281		95a
282		95a
283	(with Irish mail. EW calls it "the first moving thing I had to ride on."),	95a
284	(on tricycle with Capitol in background),	95a
285		95a
286	("Eudora"),	95a
287		95a
288		95a
289		95a
290	(Indian suit--Christmas; Wither's house in back),	95a
291		95a
292		95a
293		95a
294		95a
295		95a
296		95a
297		95a
298	(Belhaven in background--probably the building that burned),	95a
299		95a
300		95a
301	301 and 302 are printed from same negative.	95a
302	301 and 302 are printed from same negative.	95a
303	(Edward and his cats),	95a
304		95a
305		95a
306		95a
307	(with his saxophone. Edward was a good musician in many ways.),	95a
308		95a
309		95a
310		95a
311	(Both boys were golf champions.),	95a
312		95a
313		95a
314	(Probably at old country club.),	95a
315		95a
316		95a
317	(The dagger was a souvenir from Cuba, an insurance trip with father that Edward made.),	95a
318	(That dagger! Pretending to be attacked by thug.),	95a
319		95a
320	(Graduation from high school),	95a
321		95a
322		95a
323		95a
324		95a
325		95a
326		95a
327		95a
328	(Favorite, I took),	95a
329		95a
330	(with Eleanor & mother),	95a
331		95a
332		95a
333	(war time)	95a
334		95a
335		95a
336		95a
337		95a

11. Walter

Negative #	Caption	Box #
338		95a
339	(Walter was always mischievous. Could not tell what was coming next.),	95a
340		95a
341		95a
342		95a
343		95a
344		95a
345		95a
346	(My favorite),	95a
347		95a
348		95a
349		95a
350		95a
351		95a
352	("Walter and Mary Grace Clark, Congress St."),	95a
353		95a
354		95a
355		95a
356		95a
357		95a
358	(Play-pen was made by father for Walter--He was so venturesome.),	95a
359		95a
360		95a
361		95a
362		95a
363	(He thought he had thrown the ball in the sky--stood waiting for it to come down.),	95a
364		95a
365		95a
366		95a
367		95a
368	(the shack they built. Isn't that wonderful looking! They worked on it without a stop. Wouldn't let me in it.)	95a
369		95a
370	(I took these. Love these. Saturday Evening Post he was selling.)	95a
371	(maybe at Trout Lake),	95a
372		95a
373		95a
374		95a
375	(All of these are darling, so cute!)	95a
376	(All of these are darling, so cute!)	95a
377	(All of these are darling, so cute!)	95a
378	(All of these are darling, so cute!)	95a
379	(All of these are darling, so cute!) This image was previously numbered 90a.	95a
380		95a
381	(with Catherine Ricks and someone at country club),	95a
382		95a
383		95a
384		95a
385	(Golfing--They were both good golfers.),	95a
386		95a
387		95a
388		95a
389		95a
390		95a
391		95a
392	(Mothing pinning a sweeheart rose on Walter on Mother's Day),	95a
393		95a
394	(This is after Elizabeth and Mary Alice came along, years later.),	95a
395		95a
396		95a
397	(Mittie and Walter courting),	95a
398	(On honeymoon, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee),	95a
399	(Home on leave, met Elizabeth for first time),	95a
400		95a
401	(Walter and best friend, Harris Barksdale),	95a
402		95a
402a		95a
402b		95a
402c		95a
402d		95a

12. Edward and Walter

Negative #	Caption	Box #
403		95b
404		95b
405		95b
406		95b
407		95b
408		95b
409		95b
410		95b
411	(the shack they built. Isn't that wonderful looking! They worked on it without a stop. Wouldn't let me in.)	95b
412		95b
413	(with Margaret Barton)	95b
414		95b
415	(with Harris Barksdale),	95b
416		95b
417		95b
418		95b
419		95b
420	(In Livingston Park when it opened),	95b
421	(Fountain in New Orleans),	95b
422		95b
423		95b
424		95b
425		95b
426		95b
427		95b
428	Walter and Harris, netting over trellis. I'm not sure what they were doing.),	95b
429		95b
430	(Walter's house under construction. Edward designed it; both were just home from the army.),	95b
431		95b

13. House, 742 N. Congress

Negative #	Caption	Box #
432	(Pulled shades to take pictures; I remember clock and how it sounded. House new, 1907-08),	95b
433		95b
434		95b
435		95b
436	(They always had a lot of books. These were probably Stoddard's lectures or an encyclopedia.)	95b
437	(437a is a print from this negative)	95b
437a	(house printed in reverse),	95b
438	(My room upper left. Later it was a sewing room),	95b
439		95b
440	(House printed in reverse),	95b
441		95b
442		95b
443		95b
444		95b
445	(Eudora has rocking chair, somewhere in the family; still has dresser.)	95b

14. Family Outings

Negative #	Caption	Box #
446	(Oakland, our first car; touring car; I was 8 or 9 years old.),	95b
447	(Mother kept her hat in a pillow case tied on back of car),	95b
448		95b
449		95b
450	(Bridge in Tennessee; limestone hills),	95b
451	(ferry, probably across Tennessee River),	95b
452	(Up in Delta. This was a main road.),	95b
453		95b
454		95b
455	(Much later. Packard, going to New Orleans or Gulf Coast),	95b
456		95b
457	(Frankfort, Capital of Kentucky),	95b
458		95b
459		95b
460	(1923 Studebaker),	95b
461		95b
462	(Trip to Vicksburg, a picnic with Aunt Grace and Jane Percy Slack),	95b
463		95b
464		95b
465	(On cannon in Vicksburg park),	95b
466	(Up in tower, Vicksburg Park),	95b
467		95b
468		95b
469	(Swimming, Elk River, West Virginia near Clendinin, Uncle Carl's house with Aunt Maude (Carl's wife))	95b
470		95b
471	(Stella Carden. We made trips to Vicksburg for company outings; took picnics. It was a long trip.)	95b
472		95b
473		95b
474		95b
475		95b
476		95b
477		95b
478		95b
479		95b
480		95b
481		95b
482	(Vicksburg Park, 1925, with one of my MSCW roommates, Mary Moore Mitchell from Grenada),	95b
483		95b
484		95b

15. House, 1119 Pinehurst

Negative #	Caption	Box #
485	(New house on Pinehurst; corner house was there, but nothing else to other corner. Ours was one of two houses on block.),	95b
486		95b
487		95b
488		95b
489		95b
490		95b
491		95b
492		95b
493		95b
494		95b
495		95b
496		95b
497		95b
498		95b
499		95b
500		95b
501		95b
502		95b
503		95b
504		95b
505		95b
506		95b
507		95b
508		95b
509		95b

16. Early photos of mother and father

Negative #	Caption	Box #
510		95b
511		95b
512		95b
513		95b
514		95b
515		95b
516	(missing),	95b
517		95b
518		95b
519		95b
520		95b
521		95b
522		95b
523		95b
524		95b
525		95b
526		95b
527		95b
528		95b
529		95b
530		95b
531		95b
532		95b
533		95b
534		95b
535		95b
536		95b
537		95b
538		95b
539		95b
540		95b
541		95b
542		95b
543		95b
No Neg.	Print of Mother (no neg)	95b

17. Father's unidentified negatives

Negative #	Caption	Box #
544-563	Folder 1. Contact Prints	95c
564-583	Folder 2. Contact Prints (#578 is lacking)	95c
584-590	Folder 3. Contact Prints	95c

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