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Rynwood, the childhood home of Margaret Salvage in Glen Head, New York.

Rynwood, the childhood home of Margaret Salvage in Glen Head, New York.

Rynwood, the childhood home of Margaret Salvage in Glen Head, New York.

Margaret Salvage Polk Taliaferro (Margaret Smith Salvage; Mrs. James Potter Polk; Mrs. C. Champe Taliaferro)

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Martha Mlinaric, right, scraping vegetables in her city garden along with her baby, Jessica, her dog, Speed, and, at left, Maxime McKendry. Photo by Christopher Simon Sykes. Vogue, September 15, 1971.

Martha Laycock. Photo by David Montgomery.

Martha Laycock Millnaric,Rory McEwen, and Mrs. Rory McEwen at the wedding of Pamela Colin and Lord Harlech. Photo by Patrick Lichfield. Vogue, March 1, 1970.

Martha Laycock Mlinaric (Katherine Martha Laycock; Mrs. David Mlinaric)

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Suit by Balenciaga, F/W 1949-50. Gift of Mrs. John Chambers Hughes, 1971.

Evening dress by Balenciaga, Fall 1966. Gift of Mrs. John Chambers Hughes, 1967.

Evening dress by Balenciaga, 1966. Gift of Mrs. John Chambers Hughes, 1967.

Margaret “Mardi” Kelly Hughes (Margaret Kelly; Mrs. James Jackson Porter; Mrs. John Chamber Hughes)

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Mrs. Bertrand L. Taylor III. Photo by Louise Dahl-Wolfe, 1954.

Mrs. Bertrand L. Taylor advertising Coro Jewelry, 1947

Mrs. Peter Gimbel’s pale, ethereal beauty is dramatically set off by this new crossing of colours and textures in fur—spotted fur, plus long-haired red fox. She wears a three-quarter length coat of African leopard, deeply collared and faced in Russian natural red fox; dashing in town or in a sports car. Illustration by Rene Bouche. Vogue, October 1, 1960.

Virginia McCulloch Taylor Gimbel (Virginia Fair McCulloch; Mrs. Bertrand L. Taylor III or Junior; Mrs. Peter Gimbel)

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Miss Alison Pyne wearing a sleeveless velvet dress with a pencil-pleated skirt for the debutante’s Velvet Ball. Photo by Horst P. Horst. Vogue, October 15, 1938.

Portrait of debutante Miss Allison Pyne. She is wearing an evening dress with a blue velvet top and a metallic knife print skirt. Miss Stevenson is in a black velvet gown with a scalloped neckline and sleeve hem. Photo by Horst P. Horst. Vogue, October 15, 1938.

Alison Pyne riding a bicycle. Photo by George Karger. Vogue, March 1, 1942.

Alison Pyne Ewing (Mrs. John H. Ewing)

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Mrs. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, the former Mai Duncan Watson. Photo by Brandenburg Studio. Harper’s Bazaar, November 1924.

Mr. Francis Burke Roche, Mrs. and Mr. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, and Mr. Harvey S. Ladew of New York. Mrs. Frelinghuysen, who was Miss Mai Duncan Watson at the beginning of the winter season, and her husband have now returned to New York. Photo by International News Service and Underwood & Underwood. Vogue, April 1, 1915.

Mrs. Frelinghuysen has spent this winter in her new apartment on Park Avenue, with the exception of two months at Palm Beach. She was. before her marriage, Miss Mai D. Watson, and is the sister of Mr. W. Whitewright Watson, who married Miss Beatrice Burrill. During the summer, Mrs. Frelinghuysen will make her annual trip to Paris. She is distinguished for her perfect taste in dress. Photo by Nickolas Muray. Vogue, May 1, 1923.

Mai Watson Frelinghuysen Douglas (Mai Duncan Watson; Mrs. Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen; Mrs. James Gordon Douglas)

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Ruth Hobart engagement to William Willard “Bill” Crocker. San Francisco Chronicle, May 14, 1923.

Mrs. William W. Crocker. Mrs. Crocker, who was formerly Miss Ruth Hobart, is one of the most attractive and popular members of the young married set in San Francisco. She was in New York during the late autumn and attended many of the more important social events of the season. Photo by Edward Steichen. Vogue, December 21, 1929.

Ruth Hobart Crocker (Ruth Hobart; Mrs. William Willard Crocker)

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Mr. Henry Field, the famous anthropologist, and his family at home in Georgetown. Photos by Constantin Joffe. Vogue, February 1, 1949. (Page 1)

Mrs. Henry Field, Henry Field and Mariana Field. Tea-time choice: linen shirt and wool skirt. Photo by Constantin Joffe. Vogue, February 1, 1949. (Page 2)

Mrs. Field is up at seven, does the housework, ordering, packs Mariana off for school, and then, in blue jeans and pigtails, turns her energy to the back garden. Photo by Constantin Joffe. Vogue, February 1, 1949. (Page 3)

Placidia White Knowlton Field Bridgen(Mrs. John Knowlton; Mrs. Henry Field)

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Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sterling dancing in their house with glass walls—gigantic views. Photo by Constantin Joffe. Vogue, February 1, 1949.

Mrs. Walter Sterling, in a quilted wrapper, picks the morning orange juice right outside the kitchen. Photo by Constantin Joffe. Vogue, February 1, 1949.

The pool is the daytime centre at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sterling. Photo by Constantin Joffe. Vogue, February 1, 1949.

Mrs. Walter Sterling

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Ensign Frederick Clifford Ford and Mrs. Samuel H. Bell, September 9, 1943.

Mrs. Samuel H. Bell and the tractor. Photo by Constantin Joffe. Vogue, February 1, 1949.

Mrs. Bell and Virginia Louise (the baby). Mrs. Bell in traditional plaid cotton shirt, and denim frontier pants (the children wear them too.). Photo by Constantin Joffe. Vogue, February 1, 1949.

Mrs. Samuel H Bell

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Gilded Cotton, Jewelled Linen Evening Dresses: Mrs. Edward M. M. Warburg and Mrs. Alfred De Liagre, Jr. Photo by Cecil Beaton. Vogue, May 15, 1946. (Page 1)

Gilded Cotton, Jewelled Linen Evening Dresses: Mrs. Edward M. M. Warburg and Mrs. Alfred De Liagre, Jr. Photo by Cecil Beaton. Vogue, May 15, 1946. (Page 2)

How They Dress in Three Cities: New York, Paris, and London. Photos by Lee Miller, Norman Parkinson, and Serge Balkin. Vogue, February 15, 1945.

Mary Prue Currier Warburg (Mary Whelan Prue; Mrs. Richard Currier; Mrs. Edward M. M. Warburg)

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Lady Milford Haven and Prince Dimitri Djordjadze at a party in New York. Photo by Nick de Morgoli. Vogue, December 1951.

Marquis of Milford Haven with his fiancée, Mrs. Romaine Dahlgren Pierce Simpson, September 27, 1949

Romaine Pierce Simpson Milford-Haven, 1953

Romaine Dahlgren Pierce (Mrs. William A. Simpson; David Michael Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford-Haven; Mrs. James Busch Orthwein)

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Adele Longmire, Peggy Wood, and Nancy Wiman, 1940

As an American girl in “Letters to Lucerne,” Nancy Wiman, 23-year old daughter of Dwight Deere Wiman, producer of the play, is getting her first big chance. She's the eldest of four Wiman daughters, all more or less stagestruck. Her past experience includes understudying for Adele Longmire in “Old Acquaintance.” Miss Longmire never got sick, so her services weren't required. Offstage, she knits tirelessly for Britain. Vogue, January 1, 1942.

Bermuda—open all summer: Miss Nancy Wiman, at her family’s Bermuda place, in eyelet organdy strung with black velvet. Photo by Horst P. Horst. Vogue, July 1, 1938.

Nancy “Trink” Deere Wiman Carter Wakeman Gardiner (Mrs. Arthur William Carter; Mrs. William Wakeman; Mrs. Winthrop Gardiner, Jr.)

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Marie-Claude Vogel wearing a Hermes dress. Photo by Horst P. Horst.

Peggy Leaf and Marie-Claude Vogel wearing shorts and hand-knit Arabian burnoose beach cape and shorts, with unidentified man. Photo by Horst P. Horst. Vogue, July 1, 1934.

Marie-Claude Vogel Vaillant-Couturier (Marie-Claude Vogel; Mrs. Paul Vaillant-Couturier; Mrs. Pierre Villon)

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Mrs. Richard Smart’s Victorian bibelots in the garden. Photo by Fred Dapprich. Vogue, April 1, 1944.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Smart helping prepare the feast. Photo by Toni Frissell. Vogue, May 15, 1939.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Smart eating poi. Photo by Toni Frissell. Vogue, May 15, 1939.

Patricia Havens-Monteagle Smart Martin Klenk (Patricia Valerie Havens-Monteagle; Mrs. Richard Palmer Smart; Mrs. Herbert Spencer Martin; Mrs. W. Clifford Klenk, Jr.)

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Mr. Douglas riding with his daughter, Sharman, Elizabeth Jackson, an English friend, and Lyncho, the foreman. Photo by Constantin Joffe. Vogue, September 15, 1951.

Lewis W. Douglas and his grandson. Handling the reins with him here, at the ranch, is his three-year-old grandson, James Stuart Douglas, junior, the fifth generation of the Douglas family to live in Arizona. Photo by Constantin Joffe. Vogue, July 1951.

Mrs. Lewis W. Douglas (Peggy Zinsser). Photo by Horst P. Horst. Vogue, May 15, 1947.

Peggy Zinsser Douglas (Margaret “Peggy” Zinsser; Mrs. Lewis W. Douglas)

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Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Jr., at their wedding on June 8, 1938

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Jr., 1938

Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Jr. #1 (Manuela Mercedes Hudson; Mrs. Edward “Ned” Beale McLean, Jr.)

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Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt, floor and music chairman, Mrs. Arthur Brackett and Mrs. Thomas M. Ryan met at the home of Mrs. Ryan, 2735 Fifth Avenue, to discuss entertainment features for the Day Nursery Ball, which will be a costume affair, January 10, 1940.

Eleanor Roosevelt with son Elliott Roosevelt and his wife at their country home Dutch Ranch near Benbrook, March 8, 1937

Newlyweds Mr. Elliott Roosevelt and Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt on arrival at Santa Fe Railway station, c. 1930s.

Ruth Roosevelt (Ruth Josephine Googins; Mrs. Eliott Roosevelt; Mrs. Harry Taylor Eidson)

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Mrs. George Whitney, Jr. inside her home wearing a long jersey dress and belt. Photo by Horst P. Horst. Vogue, March 15, 1946.

Mrs. George Whitney, Junior. Illustration by Rene Bouche. Vogue, March 15, 1946.

Mrs. George Whitney, Jr. Photos by Horst P. Horst. Vogue, March 15, 1946.

Phyllis Stevenson Whitney (Phyllis S. Stevenson; Mrs. George Whitney, Jr.)

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Sally Clark McLanahan (Sally Clark; Mrs. George Xavier McLanahan)

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Ladies Melissa and Caroline Wyndham-Quinn in Sybil Connolly dresses. Photo by Norman Parkinson. Vogue, 1954.

Lady Melissa Wyndham Quin in Sybil Connelly. Photo by Cecil Beaton. Vogue, August 15, 1953.

Lady Adare (aka Viscountess Adare; Nancy Yuille) wearing a Patou gown with a possible Gainsborough painting hanging above the fireplace. Photo by Horst P. Horst. Vogue, June 1, 1947.

Nancy, Lady Adare (Countess of Dunraven and Mount-Earl; Viscountess Adare; Nancy Yuille)

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Mrs. Samuel Meek at the Everglades Club during the Planned Parenthood Ball. Photo by Bert Morgan, February 1, 1978.

Miss Marjorie Meacham, also a Nurse's Aide, was presented by her mother, Mrs. Edgar Eyre, and her stepfather, Lieutenant Colonel Eyre. She wears white organdie. Vogue, April 1, 1945.

Marjorie, Mrs. Eric Dunn, is the daughter of Mrs. Edgar A. Eyre. Photo by Horst P. Horst. Vogue, January 1, 1949.

Marjorie Meacham Dunn Meek (Marjorie Meacham; Mrs. Eric Dunn; Mrs. Samuel W. Meek, Jr.)

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Countess Vivi Stokes Crespi, daughter of Lady Drummond-Wolf, with George Stinchfield at the Playhouse in Palm Beach. Photo by Bert Morgan, c. 1950s.

Miss Vivian Stokes, daughter of Mrs. Henry Drummond-Wolff and Mr. Sylvanus Stokes, on the Debutante Committee. Chiffon and silver lame dress; Jay-Thorpe. The brooch-diamonds (three shades), rubies, emeralds, sapphires. Diamond bracelet. Photo by John Rawlings. Vogue, October 15, 1941.

Interested spectators at the Washington Horse Show included (left) Mrs. Peter G. Gerry, wife of Senator Gerry, and Mrs. Sylvanus Stokes, Jr., (right), who is at present in Newport. Photo by Harris and Ewing. Vogue, July 15, 1924.

Margaret Fahnestock Stokes Holcombe Drummond-Wolff (Margaret Fahnestock; Mrs. Sylvanus Stokes; Mrs. Benjamin Royall Holcombe; Mrs. Henry Maxence Cavendush Drummond-Wolff)

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Madame Manoeuvrier in an 18th c. Venetian costume made of golden yellow moire sprinkled with rose coloured flowers and draped with a sheer black lace mantilla. Princesse Achille Murat in her costume of yellow ottoman trimmed with pink roses. The web-like black lace which she wears caught to the tip of her tricorn so becomingly is as typical of old Venice as it is of Spain. Photo by Wi. Rebinder. Vogue, September 15, 1924.

In this curious boat, like a house on two canoes, manned by native women, the Prince and Princesse Murat were rowed across a lake in Java. Photo by Edward Steichen. Vogue, January 1, 1927.

Prince Lucien Murat and his son and daughter-in-law, Prince and Princesse Achille Murat, are shown with the chiefs of Marrakesh at the feast given in honour of the visitors. Vogue, May 1, 1924.

Princess Achille Murat (Magdeleine de Chasseloup Laubat)

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