Maggie Eesley as a baby, c. 1951

Maggie Eesley as an infant, propped up in a wooden crib with a hanging toy at the left, looking straight at the camera. The youngest of Will and Peggy Eesley’s four children, born c. 1951 — which dates the frame to her first year.

It is a small closing of a loop: the archivist behind this site’s whole paternal-side image layer — the four-generation photo deck that so many of these portraits come through — here at the very start, on the other side of the camera.