• A Look Back at the Mitford Family and ‘Bright Young Things’ Crowd in Archival Photos

    Mitford family photographic print
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    The Mitford family photographic print

  • The ‘Bright Young Things’ Crowd in Archival Photos

    1932:  Three of the Mitford sisters at Lord Stanley of Aldernay's wedding.  From left to right: Unity Mitford; Diana Mitford (Mrs Bryan Guinness, later Lady Diana Mosley) and writer Nancy Mitford.  (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    1932: Three of the Mitford sisters at Lord Stanley of Aldernay’s wedding. From left to right: Unity Mitford; Diana Mitford (Mrs Bryan Guinness, later Lady Diana Mosley) and writer Nancy Mitford.

  • The ‘Bright Young Things’ Crowd in Archival Photos

    17th June 1934:  Left to right: American actress and dancer Adele Astaire, wife of Lord Charles Cavendish; Princess Polny; Tallulah Bankhead; Tilly Losch; and Cecil Beaton with a flock of doves at his home 'Ashcombe' in Wiltshire.  (Photo by Sasha/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    17th June 1934: Left to right: American actress and dancer Adele Astaire, wife of Lord Charles Cavendish; Princess Polny; Tallulah Bankhead; Tilly Losch; and Cecil Beaton with a flock of doves at his home ‘Ashcombe’ in Wiltshire.

  • The ‘Bright Young Things’ Crowd in Archival Photos

    9th November 1955:  The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire at the Dorchester.  (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)
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    9th November 1955: The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire at the Dorchester.

  • The ‘Bright Young Things’ Crowd in Archival Photos

    Nancy Mitford photographed at her Paris home located on the Left Bank’s Rue Monsieur on December 12, 1964
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    Nancy Mitford photographed at her Paris home located on the Left Bank’s Rue Monsieur on December 12, 1964.

  • The ‘Bright Young Things’ Crowd in Archival Photos

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    Nancy Mitford photographed at her Paris home located on the Left Bank’s Rue Monsieur on December 12, 1964.

  • The ‘Bright Young Things’ Crowd in Archival Photos

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    Nancy Mitford photographed at her Paris home located on the Left Bank’s Rue Monsieur on December 12, 1964.

  • The ‘Bright Young Things’ Crowd in Archival Photos

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    Nancy Mitford photographed at her Paris home located on the Left Bank’s Rue Monsieur on December 12, 1964.

  • The ‘Bright Young Things’ Crowd in Archival Photos

    Photographer and designer Sir Cecil Beaton poses for photographs and discusses his design plans for the new club, called Raffles, which will open in the basement of The Sherry-Netherland Hotel in October on August 16, 1968 in New York City. (Photo by Nick Machalaba/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images)
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    Photographer and designer Sir Cecil Beaton poses for photographs and discusses his design plans for the new club, called Raffles, which will open in the basement of The Sherry-Netherland Hotel in October on August 16, 1968 in New York City.

  • The ‘Bright Young Things’ Crowd in Archival Photos

    Photographer and designer Sir Cecil Beaton poses for portraits in a St. Regis New York hotel suite on September 20, 1966 in New York City.
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    Photographer and designer Sir Cecil Beaton poses for portraits in a St. Regis New York hotel suite on September 20, 1966 in New York City.

  • The ‘Bright Young Things’ Crowd in Archival Photos

    Photographer and designer Sir Cecil Beaton poses for portraits in a St. Regis New York hotel suite on September 20, 1966 in New York City.
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    Photographer and designer Sir Cecil Beaton poses for portraits in a St. Regis New York hotel suite on September 20, 1966 in New York City.

  • The ‘Bright Young Things’ Crowd in Archival Photos

    (L-R) Eunice Shriver, Pamela Harriman, Edmund Muskie, and Jane Muskie attend a fundraiser for Edmund Muskie's presidential campaign in Washington, D.C., on April 17, 1972. (Photo by Guy DeLort/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images)
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    (L-R) Eunice Shriver, Pamela Harriman, Edmund Muskie, and Jane Muskie attend a fundraiser for Edmund Muskie’s presidential campaign in Washington, D.C., on April 17, 1972.

  • A Look Back at the Mitford Family and ‘Bright Young Things’ Crowd in Archival Photos

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    Jessica Mitford in New York, September 4, 1973.

  • A Look Back at the Mitford Family and ‘Bright Young Things’ Crowd in Archival Photos

    Jessica Mitford in New York, September 4, 1973.

  • The ‘Bright Young Things’ Crowd in Archival Photos

    Pamela Harriman (L) and W. Averell Harriman (R) attend a fundraising dinner presented by the Democratic Study Group, honoring New York Governor W. Averell Harriman, at the Sheraton Hotel in Washington, D.C., on May 15, 1974. (Photo by Guy DeLort/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images)
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    Pamela Harriman (L) and W. Averell Harriman (R) attend a fundraising dinner presented by the Democratic Study Group, honoring New York Governor W. Averell Harriman, at the Sheraton Hotel in Washington, D.C., on May 15, 1974.

  • The ‘Bright Young Things’ Crowd in Archival Photos

    Pamela Harriman (R) attends the 90th birthday party for Alice Roosevelt Longworth in Washington, D.C., on February 12, 1974. (Photo by Fairchild Archive/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images)
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    Pamela Harriman (R) attends the 90th birthday party for Alice Roosevelt Longworth in Washington, D.C., on February 12, 1974.

  • The ‘Bright Young Things’ Crowd in Archival Photos

    The Hon Diana Mitford (1910 - 2003), second wife of Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet, English politician and leader of the British Union of Fascists.    (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)
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    The Hon Diana Mitford (1910 – 2003), second wife of Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet, English politician and leader of the British Union of Fascists.

  • The ‘Bright Young Things’ Crowd in Archival Photos

    (L-R) Deborah Cavendish, Jerry Zipkin, and Evangeline Bruce attend a party, celebrating the National Gallery of Art's new exhibit "Treasure Houses of Britain," at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., on October 30, 1985.
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    (L-R) Deborah Cavendish (née Mitford), Jerry Zipkin, and Evangeline Bruce attend a party, celebrating the National Gallery of Art’s new exhibit “Treasure Houses of Britain,” at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., on October 30, 1985.

  • The ‘Bright Young Things’ Crowd in Archival Photos

    Evangeline Bruce (L) and Deborah Cavendish attend a party, celebrating the National Gallery of Art's new exhibit "Treasure Houses of Britain," at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., on October 30, 1985.
    Image Credit: Guy DeLort

    Evangeline Bruce (L) and Deborah Cavendish (née Mitford) attend a party, celebrating the National Gallery of Art’s new exhibit “Treasure Houses of Britain,” at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., on October 30, 1985.

  • The ‘Bright Young Things’ Crowd in Archival Photos

    Evangeline Bruce (L) and Deborah Cavendish attend a party, celebrating the National Gallery of Art's new exhibit "Treasure Houses of Britain," at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., on October 30, 1985. (Photo by Guy DeLort/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images)
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    Evangeline Bruce (L) and Deborah Cavendish (née Mitford) attend a party, celebrating the National Gallery of Art’s new exhibit “Treasure Houses of Britain,” at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., on October 30, 1985.

  • The ‘Bright Young Things’ Crowd in Archival Photos

    Patricia Mosbacher (C) and guests attend an event at the central branch of the New York Public Library in New York City on November 10, 1988.
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    Jessica Mitford and guests attend an event at the central branch of the New York Public Library in New York City on November 10, 1988.

  • The ‘Bright Young Things’ Crowd in Archival Photos

    Jessica Mitford (foreground) attends an event at the central branch of the New York Public Library in New York City on November 10, 1988.
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    Patricia Mosbacher attends an event at the central branch of the New York Public Library in New York City on November 10, 1988.

  • The ‘Bright Young Things’ Crowd in Archival Photos

    Deborah Cavendish the Dowager .Duchess of Devonshire at the Old Vicarage. (Photo by Fairchild Archive/Penske Media via Getty Images)
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    Deborah Cavendish the Dowager. Duchess of Devonshire at the Old Vicarage.

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