TKAM Photo Analysis

Title:  Bradford, near the Bradford mines at Bradford, Alabama. From these towns 

came many of the people living in the Palmerdale Homesteads, Alabama

Observations:

It's not a log cabin but the house is made of wood. The house is elevated on small stilts. The stairs on the house look lopsided or rickety. There appears to be an outhouse in the back. There is a chimney on the roof. The house has a lot of windows and doors. The shrubs and grass look dry along with the dirt road. In the distance you can see a lot of trees like you would see in a forest. They have a swing and two chairs on their porch.

Inferences:

Some houses are on stilts to prevent vermin from getting in the house so that could be the reason they have an elevated house. If the house is lopsided then the ground of even house itself is unstable. An outhouse means they didn't have running water (at least not for toilets). This doesn't suggest they lived in terrible conditions, but maybe not the best. The chimney suggests that they burned fires in their home. We can assume that the fires are where they got most of their heat during the colder seasons. The dry ground and shrubbery means there wasn't a whole ton a rain in this area. The family must have liked nature and sun (they have so many windows!).

Could it be Maycomb?

I think this could definitely be what Maycomb looked like. Scout describes the houses as "rickety", which I think can completely be applied to the home depicted in the picture. Another similarity is that Maycomb has dirt roads and his very hot and dry. In the picture we can see obvious dirt roads and the dry plants can lead us to believe that this place also suffered from heat and dryness/lack of rain. People in Maycomb kept their doors open everyday (unless someone was sick) because they were very welcoming of visitors. The house in the picture has a lot of windows, which remind me of Maycomb. Doors in Maycomb were left open to appear friendly. In the picture, I imagine it could be just the same...but with windows instead. A lot of open windows seems just as welcoming as an open door, in my opinion.