The photo is not dated, but it must have been just a few months after I was born. "Photographed by W. Bunton Talbott, 130 Maxwell Place, Tampa, Fla, Phone H - 1984" is stamped on the back of the photo. In another photo album titled "Our Baby", it says in the front that the following photos were taken when I was six months old. This one seems to match all of those, so that would put the date as approximately March of 1950.
My sister used to complain that there were two baby books and dozens of photos of me and no baby books of her. She has a valid complaint. Mom's response was that I was the first born. By the time she was born, the novelty had apparently worn off, I suspect.
From all of these professional photographs that were in the albums I put together for mom, she had visited a number of professional studios over the years. When I was born, the effort seemed to accelerate. From my birth certificate, 5818 Bayshore Boulevard, in Tampa, was where we lived. (No zip code in those days.) One of the few pictures taken when we lived there only gives a partial glimpse of the backyard and not much of the house itself. No telling if the house still exists.
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