Album page: Willtown Bluff clipping, Congaree Legion / Kronrad's Garage column, oval portrait 'A.P.F.S.', and addressed envelope to Helen Barnwell
Book 2, Page 20 ·1900–1953
Transcription
Upper-left clipping — masthead and opening of article:
[S]outh Carolina’s Progressive Newspaper
WILLTOWN BLUFF
The cover story in our magazine Sunday on Willtown Bluff probably brought back to a number of South Carolinians many fond memories. For this beautiful spot, far off the beaten tracks, is known to a consider— [clipping truncated]
Lower-left clipping column (mounted upside-down — text below is given as it reads upright). At the top of the column, a Lexington, S.C. dateline:
Congaree Legion
Congaree American Legion Post No. 90, recently elected H. Alton Roof as Post Commander for 1953. Mr. Roof has served two years as Adjutant.
Other post officers elected were: First Vice Commander, A. A. Shumar; Second Vice Commander, D. A. [P]riester (1952 post commander); Adjutant and Finance Officer, S. Owen Shuler; Service Officer, Horace K. Steele; Chaplain, W. A. Lewis; Post Historian, H. E. Watson; Sergeant-at-arms, L. E. Rish, and Child Welfare Chairman, S. W. Steele, Jr.
The officers were installed by the [C]ommander of District No. 10, A[ng]el Murphy of Batesburg.
Beneath that, a small boxed display ad:
Collision Damage Vanishes In Our Shop
KRONRAD’S GARAGE 902 Harden St — Columbia, S. C. Phone 4-3398
And at the foot of the column, the head of a large display advertisement reading “FOR SALE / FIXTURES / Plate Glass and / Showing Cases” — a retail liquidation notice; body text truncated.
Center photograph: a small oval sepia vignette of a young girl with shoulder-length hair, set into the page; captioned in ink at the foot:
A. P. F. S.
[Initials of Amy Perry FitzSimons — the compiler herself as a child. The same vignette appears on p026 of this book.]
Upper-right envelope: a large pale envelope addressed in pencilled cursive:
Helen Barnwell South Battery Charleston, S. C.
A circular SPARTANBURG, S. C. postmark sits at the upper-right corner of the envelope; the date in the postmark cannot be read with confidence. A pencilled “+5” notation at the top edge appears to be a later cataloguing mark.
AI Notes
An album page with several pasted items. Upper left: the masthead and opening of a magazine-section feature ‘WILLTOWN BLUFF’ (from a publication identified as ‘South Carolina’s Progressive Newspaper’ — likely The State, Columbia, in the early 1950s). Lower left: a column of Columbia, S.C. newsprint mounted upside-down combining a furniture/fixtures liquidation ad (‘FOR SALE / FIXTURES / Plate Glass and Showing Cases’), a ‘Kronrad’s Garage’ (902 Harden St., Columbia) collision-repair box ad, and a Lexington S.C. dateline headed ‘Congaree Legion’ (American Legion Post No. 90, dated by H. Alton Roof’s election as 1953 Post Commander). Center: a small oval sepia photographic vignette of a young girl, captioned ‘A. P. F. S.’ in ink — the compiler Amy Perry FitzSimons as a child; the same vignette appears on p026. Upper right: a large pale envelope addressed in pencil cursive to ‘Helen Barnwell / South Battery / Charleston, S. C.’, with a circular Spartanburg, S.C. postmark and a pencilled ‘+5’ annotation.
the lower-left column resolved as a 1953-dated Lexington, S.C. Congaree Legion news item plus a Kronrad’s Garage box ad and a “for sale / fixtures” liquidation notice — not a single advertisement. The envelope address resolved as Helen Barnwell, South Battery, Charleston (postmark Spartanburg, S. C.) — likely a piece of correspondence to a Charleston school-friend or relative.