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Just some famous architects

Dressed as the buildings they designed at the 1931 Beaux-Arts costume ball.

(From left to right: A Stewart Walker as the Fuller Building, Leonard Schultze as the Waldorf-Astoria, Ely Jacques Kahn as the Squibb Building, William Van Alen as the Chrysler, Ralph walker as 1 Wall Street, D.E.Ward as theĀ Metropolitan Tower and Joseph H. Freelander as the Museum of New York.)

No biggie.

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Filed by vic at August 28th, 2012 under no biggie

omg, vic. this is the best. i wish they were a bit more serious, though. they look like a bunch of outrageous hooligans.

Comment by sheila — August 29, 2012 @ 1:13 am

i’m sure you’re sick of hearing me say this, but this is SO AMAZING! i love that their ‘dresses’ all match. (well, aside from mr. chrysler…)

why couldn’t we have celebs dressing up like this nowadays? i would totally read the gossip mags then…

Comment by indreams — August 29, 2012 @ 4:21 am

Really love this one. You should follow #collectionfishing on twitter, you’ll see some great old photos surfacing. I’ve been enjoying posting on behalf of the State Library of South Australia.

Comment by Katie — August 29, 2012 @ 8:52 am

the best thing i’ve seen today !

Comment by Marion — September 3, 2012 @ 12:34 pm

this is AMAZE

Comment by melanie — September 27, 2012 @ 8:07 am

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