A dense album-page collage of photographs and newspaper clippings, captioned in blue ballpoint and black ink. The arrangement does not follow a strict grid; clippings are trimmed to fit between mounted photographs.

Upper left — sepia portrait:

A young man in U.S. Army officer’s uniform, head and shoulders, ca. World War I. Pencil caption above:

Theodore B. FitzSimons — World War I — [Jed?]

Upper centre — sepia photograph:

A young mother seated, holding a small boy on her lap, both in white. Captions in blue ink beneath:

Clara Mather Fitz Simons & Theodore Barker [Jr.]

Clara Walker Fitz Simons & Theodore B. Fitz Simons — their son

Upper right — sepia portrait:

A young man in suit and tie, head and shoulders, ca. 1930s. Pencil caption below:

Theodore B. F[itzSimons]

Far upper right — newspaper clipping mounted inverted:

A photograph of a young woman captioned MRS. F. L. F[ITZSIMONS], with a wedding article headed (when rotated) Simmons-Witsell / Wedding Rites / In Walterboro. The Walterboro Mayer-King wedding text (mentioning St. Mary’s Church Hartsville, Mary Sander, Ruth Rogers, Boyd Mayer, Katherine Segars) appears to be an unrelated clipping mounted alongside a FitzSimons bride portrait; the headline “Miss Fit— / Mr. —” partly visible at the lower edge has been folded out of sight. [The bride portrait may be Clara Mather Prather, the first Mrs. F. L. FitzSimons Jr.; the inverted Walterboro text belongs to a different wedding.]

Far right — newspaper group photograph:

A black-and-white newspaper photograph of a wedding party or class group, captioned partially illegible.

Right side — sepia portrait of a boy in sweater:

A small black-and-white head-and-shoulders portrait of a boy. Caption beneath in pencil:

William Huger Fitz Simons

Below that — small candid photograph of a younger boy:

Rob[er]t F.S. [Simons] Knight, son of Gladie F.S.

Centre-left clipping (newspaper) — small inset photograph and obituary:

A small snapshot above the clipping, captioned in blue ink:

Theodore + Jed

T. B. FitzSimons Dies at Savannah

Committal Services Will Be Held Here After Arrival of Train at 1:36

Theodore Barker FitzSimons, a former resident of Charleston, died at his home in Savannah, Ga., Wednesday following an attack of pneumonia.

Committal services will be held here this afternoon upon the arrival of the Atlantic Coast Line train No. 76, due at North Charleston at 1:36 p.m. Local arrangements are being handled by Connelley’s.

Pallbearers will be W. Huger FitzSimons, Dr. Joseph L. Waring, Dr. Francis O. Cain, Robert McCloy, Fitz, all of Charleston; Frank FitzSimons of Hendersonville, N.C., and Frank Norman, of Columbia.

A native of Charleston, Mr. FitzSimons was the son of Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons and Mary Anne Perry FitzSimons of Charleston. He attended the Episcopal High school in Virginia, the University of Georgia, the [Georgia] School of Technology and in 1918 was at the College of Charleston. He was fifty-five years old.

He planted for several years on his father’s plantation, Mount Hope, at Willtown Bluff, near Charleston. In 1916 and 1917 he went with the Charleston Light Dragoons to Texas, where he saw border service prior to the country’s entrance in the [war]. [Text continues into the gutter.]

Centre — newspaper headline clipping:

14 Savannah Students Win Honor Notice at U. of G.

BY HENRY HATHAWAY

ATHENS, Ga., May 2[?] — Fourteen Savannahians, all of whom stand academically in the upper ten per cent of their respective classes, were honored at the annual University of Georgia Honors Day exercises.

For achieving the highest average in the Freshman class Miss Dorothy Breckenridge was awarded the Hamilton McWhorter Prize.

Honors Day was instituted by the late Chancellor S. V. Sanford in 1936 to give public recognition to students who achieve high scholastic [records].

Students from Savannah receiving honors in the upper five per cent group included James Henry Perse, B. F. A., senior; Marvin Philip Shoob, pre-law, junior; Donald Auld, LL.B., first year; James Baron Bowden, B. S. For., junior; Charles M. Reeves, B. S. Edu., junior; Greendoline E. Dupree, B.S.H.E., senior; Bernard Adams Cann, Jr., A.B., sophomore; and Dorothy Breckenridge, A.B., freshman.

The following were listed in the upper ten per cent of their classes: Theodore Fitzsimons, A.B.; Marvin Herman Shoob, LL.B., third year; Cecil Lynn, LL.B., first year; Charles M. Waldrop, Jr., B.A., senior; Joseph Lane Reaves, B.B.A., sophomore; and E. Hinson, B.S., freshman.

[Article continues at lower margin, partly obscured.]

Centre — second clipping:

Fitz-Simmons Joins Evening College Staff

Theodore B. Fitz-Simmons, of Savannah, has joined the staff of Armstrong Evening College, and will conduct the lecture-forum series in American Government, according to Arthur W. Gignilliat, Director.

A native Savannahian, Mr. Fitz-Simmons attended the junior college and later the University of Georgia where he completed his graduate work. He has been engaged in private instructing at both high school and college level and was special tutor for the athletic association at the University of Georgia. He specialized in history and political science.

The scope of the political science course offered by Mr. Fitz-Simmons covers the structure, theory and workings of the national government in the United States. It will give a much consideration to the major problems of state and local governments in the matters of finance, administration, and the democratic tradition.

The companion subject, government of foreign powers, will be directed by Miss Mary E. Sutton. This section presents a complete account of the governments in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan, and China. Recent legislation, election results, party organizations and policies are brought up in the immediate present with the impact of technology and industrialization upon the government of the 20th Century state analyzed.

Centre-right — newspaper portrait with caption above:

THEODORE FITZSIMONS — ARMSTRONG DEBATING TEAMS

Below: a second small clipping:

MORNING CEREMONY Miss Flanagan Becomes Bride of Mr. FitzSimons

Mrs. Leo Philip Flanagan announces the marriage of her daughter, Mary Jane, to Theodore Barker FitzSimons, Jr. The ceremony took place at Sacred Heart Church at 10:30 o’clock this morning and was performed by the Rev. Timothy Flaherty in the presence of the immediate families.

Miss Patricia Wheeler of Augusta was the maid of honor and only attendant for the bride, and Robert West Preston of Charleston, S. C., was best man.

After a reception for the wedding party at the home of the bride, Mr. and Mrs. FitzSimons left for a trip to Florida and will afterwards live in Athens.

The bride is the daughter of Mrs. L. P. Flanagan and the late Mr. Flanagan, her mother having been Miss Margaret Sumner before her marriage. Mrs. FitzSimons is a graduate of St. Vincent’s Academy of Nursing.

The groom is the son of Mrs. T. B. FitzSimons and the late Mr. FitzSimons of Willtown Bluff Plantation and Charleston, S. C., his mother having been Miss Clara Prather before her marriage. He served for three years in the Army during the war, and is a graduate of Armstrong Junior College and the University of Georgia. He is now doing graduate work at the University of Georgia.

[Continuation on page, partial:]

Anti Aircraft at a training center in the Panama Canal Zone. He was discharged from the service in January, 1946, as a staff sergeant. After separation, he attended Armstrong Junior College in 1946-1947 and entered the University of Georgia at Athens in September 1947 where he is majoring in history.

Centre-right — sepia portrait of a young woman:

A head-and-shoulders studio portrait of a young woman with dark wavy hair. Caption beneath in blue ink:

Amy Perry Fitz Simons

Lower right — group photograph (interior):

A black-and-white snapshot of a mother seated on a sofa surrounded by five young children. Caption in blue ink at upper right:

Clara and five grand children. Phil & Joe [?]

Lower centre — small clipping:

ENGAGEMENTS OF INTEREST

FITZSIMONS—FITZSIMONS

Mrs. Theodore Barker FitzSimons announces the engagement of her daughter Clara Mather to Frank Lockwood FitzSimons, Jr., of Golden Glow Farm, Hendersonville, N. C. The wedding will take place Wednesday, June 9.

Lower right — pen-and-ink drawing:

A small ink-wash sketch of a chimneyed cottage among trees, signed faintly at lower right (initials look like “Theo F.S.” or similar). Caption in pencil beneath:

Clara’s home in Asheville, N.C.