Photographs of Mount Hope: living room, 'Mam'mie' (Minnie Perry FitzSimons, the compiler's mother), an unidentified man, and an A. P. F. S. vignette
Book 2, Page 26 ·1890–1910
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Top photograph (interior view of a Victorian parlor):
Living room at Mount Hope.
Middle-left and lower-left photographs (a woman in long dark dress, full length under live oaks hung with Spanish moss in one and seated against a wooden fence in the other); caption beneath the middle-left photograph:
“Mam’mie”. (Min’nie Perry Fitz Simons) as she was in my early girl hood —
Middle-right photograph: a man in dark suit and bow tie standing outdoors against a porch or fence. [No caption; likely Amy’s father Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons Sr. but not identified on the page.]
Lower-right (an oval vignette portrait of a young girl with shoulder-length hair); caption beneath:
A. P. F. S.
AI Notes
Four sepia photographs mounted on a ruled album page documenting the FitzSimons family seat at Mount Hope. Top: interior view of a Victorian parlor (kerosene lamp on a draped table, framed pictures on the rear wall), captioned ‘Living room at Mount Hope.’ Middle-left and lower-left: two outdoor photographs of a woman in long dark dress standing under live oaks hung with Spanish moss and seated against a fence; both are of the compiler’s mother. Middle-right: a man in dark suit standing outdoors (unidentified by caption — likely Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons Sr., ‘Mister Simons,’ Amy’s father, but the page does not say so). Lower-right: an oval vignette portrait of a young girl with shoulder-length hair, captioned ‘A. P. F. S.’ — Amy Perry FitzSimons as a child; the same vignette appears on p020 of this book.
The initials are Amy Perry FitzSimons — the compiler herself as a child. The same vignette appears on p020.
The caption reads Min’nie Perry Fitz Simons — i.e., Mary Anne Perry “Minnie” FitzSimons (d. Jan 1934), the compiler Amy’s mother. “Mam’mie” is the household pet name for the mother. The unattributed man at middle-right is left unnamed on this page; he is plausibly Amy’s father Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons Sr. (“Mister Simons”) but the album supplies no caption.