Photograph of Mount Hope plantation house
Book 2, Page 48 ·1900–1930
Transcription
A single large pasted photograph mounted across the page, oriented sideways relative to the album.
In its proper orientation the print shows a substantial two-story house with a wide piazza and a roofline broken by multiple dormer windows. A separate small white outbuilding — probably a detached kitchen-house or service wing — stands at the left; a great spreading tree rises behind the house at the right, and an open foreground of grass slopes down toward the camera. The image is sepia-toned and slightly foxed.
Caption (handwritten in brown ink along the right margin of the album page):
Mount Hope.
AI Notes
An album page (lined notebook paper, three punched holes) with a single large pasted photograph mounted sideways relative to the page. In its proper orientation the print shows a substantial two-story house with multiple roof dormers and a wide piazza, framed by a great spreading tree at the right and a separate small white outbuilding (probably a detached kitchen-house or service wing) at the left. A few small figures or pieces of yard furniture are just visible in the shaded foreground. The print is a warm sepia gelatin silver print, slightly foxed. Handwritten in brown ink along what is now the right edge: ‘Mount Hope.’ Mount Hope was the FitzSimons plantation in Charleston County, S.C., owned by the compiler’s father Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons Sr.
Mount Hope was the FitzSimons plantation in Charleston County, South Carolina, owned by the compiler’s father Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons Sr.