Four photographs of Amy Perry FitzSimons at St. Mary's School, Raleigh, N.C., 1901–1903

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Four pasted photographs of a young woman with dark hair, the compiler Amy Perry FitzSimons, at St. Mary’s School in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Top — oval studio portrait:

A formal head-and-shoulders portrait in an oval mat. She wears a pale dress with a dark sash or bow at the bust and a pale ribbon in her hair.

Lower three — outdoor snapshots:

Three small photographs of her seated on the grass outdoors, wearing a long dark skirt and a white shirtwaist:

Left: reclining sideways, propped on one arm, looking at the camera.
Center: sitting upright with her back to a shrub or hedge, hands in her lap.
Bottom center: seated on the ground beside small leafy plants, looking down.

Caption at foot of page (handwritten):

Amy Perry FitzSimons — St. Mary’s School — Raleigh, [S.C.] [i.e., N.C.] — ~~1898 — 1900 — 1901 — 1902~~ 1901 — 1902 — 1903

AI Notes

An album page (lined notebook paper with three punched holes) bearing four pasted photographs of the compiler, Amy Perry FitzSimons, taken during her years at St. Mary’s School in Raleigh, North Carolina. At the top, an oval-cropped studio portrait shows her head and shoulders. Below it, three smaller outdoor snapshots show her seated on the grass in a long dark skirt and white blouse. The pencilled caption at the foot of the page gives her name, the school, and dates; the years 1898 - 1900 - 1901 - 1902 were first written and then struck through, with ‘1901 - 1902 - 1903’ written cleanly below as the final reading.

The earlier sequence of dates is struck through; the corrected range “1901 — 1902 — 1903” follows. St. Mary’s School is in Raleigh, North Carolina, not South Carolina.

Saint Mary’s School, founded 1842 by the Rev. Aldert Smedes under the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, was a finishing school favored by Southern Episcopalian families. Amy entered the Senior Preparatory class and, per her own memoir on page 039, “left after my Sophomore year.” A later oval portrait on page 049 is captioned “St. Mary’s 1908” — suggesting she returned for a visit or revisits the school in album captioning.