Snapshots of Cain Island — house, launch, marsh, Marie Petite with shark
Book 2, Page 75 ·1915-1918
Transcription
Top — a horizontal landscape print showing the long low white-walled house under live oaks at the edge of a marsh or river. Caption beneath:
Cain Island.
Middle row — three smaller prints:
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Left: a motor launch tied at a wooden dock. A handwritten caption to the left of the print, sideways, reads:
The Launch.
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Center: figures crouched in tall marsh grass with a flock of ducks or geese.
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Right: a man in a dark hat and white shirt holding up a large shark by its tail. Caption to the right of the print in blue ink, with an arrow pointing into the photograph:
Marie Petite + shark — ←
Bottom row — at left, a small child in white standing in tall grass at the water’s edge; at right, a mule-drawn cart on a sandy road. Caption between the two prints in blue ink, with an arrow pointing right toward the cart:
Mim mie → [illegible]
AI Notes
Album page with six sepia snapshots from Cain Island. Top: a wide landscape view of the long low white-walled house under live oaks at the edge of a marsh. Middle row (three prints): the motor launch tied at a dock; figures with a flock of ducks/geese in the marsh; and a man holding up a large shark. The caption beside the man (with arrow pointing into the photograph) reads ‘Marie Petite + shark’ — Marie Petite is the man’s name, not a woman’s, and the second word is ‘shark,’ not ‘Charles’ as previously read. Bottom row (two prints): a small child in white standing in tall grass at the water’s edge at left, and a mule-drawn cart on a sandy road at right with what appears to be a passenger; the caption between them reads ‘Mim mie →’ (Amy’s shorthand for her mother, Mam’mie Mary Anne Perry FitzSimons), pointing to the cart photograph. A faint second line below remains partly illegible.
The compiler’s “Mim mie” is her shorthand for “Mam’mie,” her mother Mary Anne Perry FitzSimons.