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- Leaving as winners
- Rather a severe looking group
- The finer points of progress
- Before minivans
- Don't make me
- A Life Upon the Wicked Stage
- Not exactly I-95
- Another meaning
- Prime-ordial Real Estate
- Chesterfield Man
- +82
- One of those signs
- Fast-forward to today
- Harvest bounty
- The third pump
- For 27 Years, The Symbol of Savings
- A third pump?
- Pretty Sure
- No car ID?
- Feminine Company.
- Even older, now.
- Mutual, I'm sure
- Still around!
- Looking for a date?
- Rails Run Through It
- Chero-Cola
- Another fine headline
- Gangsta Rap
- They're Alive
- Lots of detail!
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Society Girls: 1915
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.
Missing Tag
These young ladies didn't rate the "Pretty Girls" tag? It's not their fault they're so moldy.
[Good point. Fixed! - Dave]
Cleaner complexions
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.
Finally
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.
Follows facial features
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]
Society Girls
yet they mold just like commoners.
Fairies at the Bottom of our Ballroom
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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