MNY381613 Portrait of five men (including Coleman Drayton, August Belmont and Frank Hoppin seated on the floor) and four women (including Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish) 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; 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.