DeFord Bailey

DeFord Bailey is shown sitting on the porch of his high rise apartment with his daughter Christine Craig.

Photo by David Morton.

Christine Craig and DeFord Bailey standing by her new Cadillac. Photo by David Morton.

DeFord Bailey with his daughter Christine Craig standing by her Cadillac in the parking lot of I W Gernert Homes where DeFord lived.

Photo by David Morton.

Photo by David Morton.

DeFord Bailey and daughter Christine sitting on porch outside his apartment.

Andrew, David Morton's son, looking at DeFord's shining shoes outside the high rise building where DeFord lived. David Morton was the photographer.

DeFord Bailey with David Morton's son, Andrew Wilson Morton, in his lap.

Mrs. Elnora Moore, a neighbor of DeFord's, is shown sitting with him on the front porch of their high rise building together with David Morton's son Andrew Wilson Morton.

Photo by David Morton.

Photo taken by David Morton of a train trestle near Newsom's Station, Tennessee. Morton believes it is the one DeFord and his foster brothers and sisters would pass through every morning on their way to school just as the express train, the Dixie Flyer, came over it.