Three black-and-white photographs of Mount Hope plantation house
Book 1, Page 317 ·1930–1960
Transcription
Three black-and-white photographs of a wood-frame plantation house surrounded by large live oaks draped in Spanish moss. Each is captioned by hand in blue ballpoint just below the image.
Upper left print — a frontal view of the house with two-story columned porch, dormer, and a brick chimney rising at the gable; live oaks shade the lawn at the left.
Mount Hope
Upper right print — the same house seen at an oblique angle through the trunks of two enormous live oaks whose branches arch across the entire frame.
Mount Hope
Lower center print — a long view across an open lawn or field toward the side of the house at the right, with live oaks trailing moss along the foreground.
Mount Hope
AI Notes
An album page with three black-and-white photographic prints mounted at the top half of the sheet, all captioned in blue ballpoint hand-printed lettering ‘Mount Hope.’ Two prints are arranged side by side at the upper edge and a third print sits centered just below them. The lower half of the page is blank. The page shows a faint rectangular discoloration where a fourth print may once have been mounted at the lower center. Mount Hope is the plantation house owned by Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons Sr. (the compiler Amy FitzSimons’s father) and is the setting of much of her memoir narrative on pp003–005 and pp039+. All three captions read ‘Mount Hope.’