Mar 25, 2021 - Sale 2562

Sale 2562 - Lot 290

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MILITARY--WORLD WAR TWO.) Wartime album kept by a Washington woman documenting her serviceman brothers. Approximately 100 photographs, most mounted on 15 scrapbook leaves, most captioned with names. Oblong 8vo album, original string-bound boards, minor wear. Vp, circa 1941-45

Additional Details

Ola A. Mayo (born 1918) was raised as one of 12 children in rural Moneta, VA, and by 1940 had moved to Washington, DC to work as a domestic. In 1941 she married Sheppard A. Brandon (1919-1977), who joined the army the following year. Sheppard appears just a couple of times, as a civilian. Several other relatives in uniform do appear, including brothers William, Edward, and Samuel Mayo, and brother-in-law Sergeant Willie F. Brandon. Ola also seems to have found new work during the war. One snapshot shows her standing in front of a school bus, captioned "I am the driver." A small percentage of the photographs are post-war.