MNY381607 Group portrait of Sydney Dillon Ripley with three others at the James Hazen Hyde Ball, New York, January 31, 1905 (silver gelatin print) by Byron Company (fl.1890-1942); 27.9x35.6 cm; Museum of the City of New York, USA; (add.info.: James Hazen Hyde (1876-1959) American millionaire socialite who inherited majority shares in the Equitable Life Assurance Society; His opulent New Year\'s Eve party of 1905 had a c18th French motif and filled two ballrooms at Sherry\'s Hotel; Sydney Dillon Ripley (d.1905) was Hyde\'s brother-in-law, the Director and Treasurer of the Equitable, and heir to the fortunes made by his grandfather Sidney Dillon, the builder of the Union Pacific Railway; Equitable subsided into chaos later that year after Hyde was accused of being too frivolous to run an insurance company;); 穢 Museum of the City of New York ; American, out of copyright.