Masquerade Ball at the Algonquin Casino

P230.120

Old catalogue number: 89.10.332 #70

1 photographs : gelatin silver print; 20 x 25 cm.

1930

Young, R. L.

Photograph depicts a group of men and women in Victorian beachwear costumes, posed indoors with props including a parasol and life preserver. Several of the individuals wear false mustaches and/or wigs.

Identified on the verso, L to R (women) Mrs. Alice Wilson, Hon. Marguerite Shaughnessy, Mrs. Helen Balfour and gentlemen on far right Howard W. Pillow

Published in Walker, Willa, No Hay Fever and a Railway  (Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 1989), p. 42.