Portrait photograph of Amy Perry FitzSimons as a young girl, school memory caption
Book 2, Page 28 ·1895-1905
Transcription
A small head-and-shoulders portrait of a young girl in a white blouse with high lace collar. Caption beneath in blue ink:
Amy Perry FitzSimons. Private school taught by Miss Mary and Miss Janie Sass — at 23 Legare St.
AI Notes
A small cabinet-card portrait of a young girl with dark hair caught back, wearing a high-necked white blouse, mounted at center on a ruled album page. Beneath, a three-line caption in blue ink identifies the sitter as Amy Perry FitzSimons and the private school she attended, taught by the Misses Mary and Janie Sass, at 23 Legare Street in Charleston. The Sass family residence at 23 Legare Street is documented; the carriage gate at that address is still known locally as ‘Sass Gate.’
The Misses Mary and Janie Sass kept a long-running private school for girls at the Sass family residence on Legare Street; their carriage entrance is still known locally as “Sass Gate.” Their younger brother Herbert Ravenel Sass (1884–1958) became the News and Courier columnist and Lowcountry naturalist whose photograph appears on page 044 of this album.