Five vintage photographs of the preparations for an outdoor party on the grounds of the Richard B. Mellon estate

by Mellon family

$500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Date and negative number in negative. Mounted on loose linen album leaves. Provenance: estate of Richard Mellon Scaife. Item #317441 From a contemporary press account of the party in the Pittsburgh Index: Tuesday night Mr. and Mrs. Richard Beatty Mellon, Miss Sarah Cordelia Mellon and Mr. Richard King Mellon entertained more than six hundred guests at an out door dance at their home in Fifth Avenue. An enormous marquee, constructed in the

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