Three photographs of Amy Perry FitzSimons, 1902 and 1904
Book 2, Page 51 ·1902-1904
Transcription
A single ink caption written at the top of the album page covers all three photographs:
Amy Perry Fitz Simons — 1902 & 1904.
Upper photograph — rectangular sepia print of a young woman in a white high-collared blouse and long dark skirt, standing against what appears to be a stone wall or rock outcrop.
Center photograph — oval sepia portrait of a young woman standing in profile, wearing a long pale dress with a sash and holding a wide-brimmed hat.
Lower photograph — rectangular sepia print of a figure standing at the foot of a large tree, possibly a live oak draped with Spanish moss; the figure is small in the frame and the setting suggests a Southern landscape.
AI Notes
Three photographs mounted vertically on a lined album page. A single ink caption at the top of the page (‘Amy Perry Fitz Simons - 1902 + 1904.’) covers all three images. Top: rectangular print of a young woman in a white high-collared blouse and dark skirt standing in front of a stone wall or rock outcrop. Middle: oval portrait of a young woman in profile, in a long pale dress with sash, holding a wide-brimmed hat. Bottom: rectangular print of a figure standing beneath a large moss-draped tree (likely a Lowcountry live oak). Enhanced read confirms the caption text and date range.
Amy Perry FitzSimons (b. 1888) — later Mrs. James Pickens Walker — is the album’s compiler. In 1902 she was about fourteen; in 1904, sixteen. The Spanish-moss setting in the lower print is consistent with the family’s Lowcountry plantation at Adams Run, S.C., where she grew up.