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Society Girls: 1915

Submitted by Dave on Sun, 03/04/2012 - 11:11pm.
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New York circa 1915. "Eleanor Davies -- Marion Gibney -- Emalena Sizer -- Caryl Hackstaff -- Elizabeth Kirlin -- Laura Parsons -- Sophie Young -- Elise Rice (Mrs. Winfield Linn)." 5x7 glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.

New York circa 1915. "Eleanor Davies -- Marion Gibney -- Emalena Sizer -- Caryl Hackstaff -- Elizabeth Kirlin -- Laura Parsons -- Sophie Young -- Elise Rice (Mrs. Winfield Linn)." 5x7 glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.

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Missing Tag

Submitted by Lupinelle on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 3:44pm.

These young ladies didn't rate the "Pretty Girls" tag? It's not their fault they're so moldy.

[Good point. Fixed! - Dave]

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Cleaner complexions

Submitted by willc on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 4:44am.

By way of comparison, the LOC negatives include three individual head shots from this same group portrait, in much better condition than the overall view: The Misses Kirlin and Parsons, and Mrs. Linn.

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Finally

Submitted by Garbage Can Boyd on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 9:28pm.

Despite the mold lines (because of the mold lines? No.), this is by far the most beautiful group of women ever on Shorpy, by today's standards. I'm not out on a limb here. I'm in on a limb. Way in.

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Follows facial features

Submitted by mitchm on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 5:32pm.

Does anyone know why the mold lines follow facial features in some cases? That is strange and spooky.

[Mold feeds on photographic emulsion, an organic gelatin compound. The best feeding ground is where the emulsion is thickest, which on a photographic negative are the densest, darkest areas, such as faces. - tterrace]

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Society Girls

Submitted by Vintagetvs on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 8:28am.

yet they mold just like commoners.

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Fairies at the Bottom of our Ballroom

Submitted by willc on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 4:23am.

These young society women are dressed in their costumes as the Fairy Queen's courtiers in an elaborate amateur musical comedy, "Old King Cole," a "melange of sprightly nonsense" performed in the Plaza Hotel ballroom on April 15, 1915, and organized by Miss Spence's School Society for the benefit of a class of tubercular crippled children. The play, followed by dinner and dancing, was repeated on the evenings of April 16 and 17. A detailed description of the production and its participants was reported in the New York Times.

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