171 photographic prints : silver gelatin; 28 x 35 cm. or smaller.
Summary
Actors, authors, artists, boxers, composers, directors, editors, horse racing officials, government officials, jockeys, musicians, opera singers, politicians, producers, socialites and other celebrities, many photographed while attending horse races, dining out, or on ships. Some actors and singers depicted in their roles on stage and screen, including one actor portraying Mark Twain. In nearly every image at least one individual is smoking, and in one a person is taking snuff. Individuals depicted include Irving Berlin, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Andy Clyde, Anthony W. Coldeway, James J. Corbett, Jo Davidson, William Du Pont, Julien Duvivier, King Edward VII, Leon Errol, James Montgomery Flagg, James Forbes, Crosby Gaige, William Gargan, Bernard Gimbel, Montague Glass, James Gleason, Jascha Haifetz, Jack Holt, Cordell Hull, Rex Ingram, Thomas E. Jackson, Will James, Emil Jannings, Sir Harry Lauder, Percy Marmont, Andrew W. Mellon, Richard K. Mellon, Benito Mussolini, Joe Penner, Channing Pollock, Philip E. Rosen, Hans von Schiller, Artur Schnabel, E.W. Scripps, Roger Sessions, Jouett Shouse, James Simpson, Nikolai Sokolof, Harry L. Straus, Herbert B. Swope, Eugene Talmadge, Ernest Torrence, Betsy Whitney, and Joseph Widener.