Joey the Baby, eight weeks old, watches his parents eat dinner near the end of a long and busy day (much like the days babies continue to accomplish in our own present time).
It is 1943 and the family is in temporary housing in Washington DC for officers' training school. Esther Bubley took the pictures for the Office of War Information. Preserved at the Library of Congress.
Personally I was tremendously touched to discover these, calling to my mind as they do the infant miraculousness of Mabel Watson Payne, who is due to return to San Francisco this weekend, to the great joy of all who pine for her arrival.