A notebook (ca. 1920) containing reminiscences by Rose P. Ravenel, who writes about her girlhood, her relationship with her "mammy" and her French nurse. She describes life at Farmfield Plantation during the Civil War, knitting socks for Confederate soldiers, making paper and envelopes, salt production, molasses candy, flower dolls, and the family's hardships after the Civil War.
Miriam DeCosta Seabrook and Eugenia DeCosta Higgins are standing outside beside each other. Miriam is wearing a straw hat and light dress. Eugenia is wearing a short sleeve dress with ruffles.
Color print reproduction of the painting Saving the Torah Scrolls by Stanislaus Bender. From A collection of paintings by Stan. Bender, published Frankfurt am Main: J. Kauffmann.
