Photographs of Amy Perry FitzSimons at Rockville Academy and at the Sass sisters' school
Book 2, Page 29 ·1899–1901
Transcription
Top left (a small framed portrait of a girl with bow at her throat):
Rockville Academy at Rockville [Md.] 1899 – 1901.
[The second-line abbreviation is faint and uncertain — possibly ‘Md.’ or ‘nd.’ or ‘end.’ Rockville Academy stood on Wadmalaw Island, S.C., so a Maryland reading would be a writing error or abbreviation for some unrelated word.]
Top right (a larger portrait of the same girl, hair pulled back, wearing a dark high-necked dress):
Amy Perry FitzSimons.
Bottom row (two candid snapshots of a child of about ten — at left seated on a step with a small dog beside her; at right seated on a porch rail); caption beneath:
These pictures of me were taken while I was going to the Sass’ school. I must have been about 10 years old. A. F. W.
AI Notes
Four sepia photographs mounted on a ruled album page. Top row: two cabinet-card portraits of a young girl, both labeled below. Bottom row: two candid outdoor photographs of a child of about ten — one seated on a step with a small dog, the other seated on a porch railing. Captions are in blue ink and signed ‘A. F. W.’ (Amy FitzSimons Walker). The second-line abbreviation in the top-left caption reads as ‘Md.’ (uncertain — possibly ‘Md.’, ‘nd.’, or ‘end.’); Rockville Academy was on Wadmalaw Island, S.C., so the abbreviation does not refer to Maryland and may be a contraction of a S.C. address or simply ‘end.’