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Guests at a New York City costume party, January, 1914. In 1914, Rea Irvin already had a reputation as a New York bon vivant. A comic artist for Red Book magazine, in that year he illustrated numerous Red Book stories written by the humorist Ellis Parker Butler (who is now best remembered for his story, "Pigs Is Pigs.) Before WWI, Irvin also contributed a steady stream of illustrations to the old "Life" magazine, a humor weekly. Irvin in 1925 became the first art editor of a new magazine, "The New Yorker," for which he designed the first cover, a portrait of Eustace Tilley, the supercilious Regency fop who became the magazine's symbol. Tilley's pose is parodied here: Rea Irvin's Wikipedia bio: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rea_Irvin

Other Bain/LOC photos of guests at a costume party in New York (the lacy backdrop in all seven photos is the same):

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Thanks for sharing this! We used a cleaned up copy in our holiday safety tips article at www.uab.edu/ohs.

Glad you were able to use this image, and we appreciate the photo credit on your site! Mary U.S. National Archives

LOC -- your title omits the initial "M" in her name.

New York Times story, January 4, 1914, takes note of upcoming costume parties among NYC socialites: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=980CE7D91F3BE6... Other Bain/LOC photos of guests at a costume party in New York City (the lacy backdrop in all seven photos is the same):

Thanks! We'll add the initial when we next update the description.