Elinor Righter's Travel Photograph Album, 1935-1939
SubjectPortrait of
Elinor Righter
(American, 1912 - 2001)
SubjectPortrait of
Eva Foster Righter
(1879 - 1946)
SubjectPortrait of
Albert Volney Foster
(1877 - 1950)
SubjectPortrait of
Brewster Righter
(1908 - 1962)
SubjectPortrait of
Walter L. Righter
(American, 1877 - 1939)
SubjectPortrait of
Brewster Righter Jr.
(American, born 1936)
SubjectPortrait of
Julia McWilliams
(American, 1912 - 2004)
SubjectPortrait of
Dorothy McWilliams
(American, 1917 - 2006)
Date1935-1939
MediumPhotography
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (album height x width, closed): 7 1/8 × 11 3/8in. (18.1 × 28.9cm)
Other (album height x width, open): 7 1/8 × 20 1/8in. (18.1 × 51.1cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Nora Oakes Howard
Object number2017.42.13.1-.256
DescriptionPhotograph album belonging to Elinor Righter, 1935-1939. Photographs from a trip to Mexico in February 1935 (.1-.67); family in Greenwich, Connecticut (.68-.74); skiing in Jackson, New Hampshire in April 1935 (.75-.82); a trip to Bermuda in 1935 (.83-.118); trips to Masschusetts and Rhode Island in 1935-1936 (.119-.148); photos of family and friends in 1936-1937 (.149-.203); a trip to California in 1938 (.204-.220); photos of family and friends in 1938-1939 (.221-.237; a trip to New York City and the 1939 New York World's Fair (.238-.250); and the Greenwich Field Club in 1939 (.251-.256).
Elinor Righter's trip to Mexico in February 1935:
(.1) Leslie, Cuernavaca
(.2) Swimming pool, Cuernavaca
(.3-.4) unidentified scenes in Mexico
(.5) Diego Rivera murals, Cortes Palace, Cuernavaca
(.6) Cortes Palace, Cuernavaca
(.7) Mother [Eva F. Righter] at bedroom door, Cuernavaca
(.8) Cortes Palace, Cuernavaca
(.9) Country Club, Cuernavaca
(.10) Pre-historic alligator at San Anton
(.11) Country Club, Cuernavaca
(.12) Pre-historic alligator at San Anton
(.13-.16) Mexican wedding, Taxco, Mexico, February 1935
(.17) Cathedral and square, Taxco, Mexico
(.18) Public fountain, Taxco, Mexico
(.19-.20) Market, Taxco, Mexico
(.21) En route to Taxco
(.22) Taxco
(.23) View from inside the cathedral, Taxco
(.24) Taxco
(.25-.27) En route to Taxco
(.28-.31) Toltec Pyramid, Xochicalco
(.32) Uncle Volney [Volney Foster, uncle of Elinor Righter] and Elinor Righter
(.33-.41) Xochicalco
(.42) Leslie & Rex & Mr. Fairbanks, Cuernavaca
(.43) Leslie, Mother [Eva Foster Righter], and Uncle Volney [Volney Foster, uncle of Elinor Righter]
(.44-.48) Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan
(.49) Sacrificial mounds, Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan
(.50) Staircase, Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan
(.51) The God Quetzalcoatl, Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan
(.52-.54) Polo, Mexico City
(.55) Mother [Eva F. Righter], Saltonstall, and Elinor Righter, Tepotzotlan
(.56) Indian Market, Toluca
(.57) Market, Toluca
(.58) Monastery, Tepotzptlan
(.59) Market, Toluca
(.60) Toluca
(.61) Vegetables Market, Toluca
(.62) Straw Market, Toluca
(.63) Clothes Market, Toluca
(.64) Horacio Casasùs, Tehuacan
(.65) Edward and Carol Laskas, Tehuacan
(.66) Straw Market, Toluca
(.67) Little boy beggars, Toluca
The Righter family in Greenwich, Connecticut:
(.68) Brewster Righter and his wife at the home of his parents, Walter and Eva F. Righter, Greenwich, Conn., 1935
(.69) Eva F. Righter at her home in Greenwich, Conn., 1935
(.70) Two people at the home of Walter and Eva F. Righter, Greenwich, Conn., 1935
(.71) Walter and Eva F. Righter at their home, Greenwich, Conn., 1935
(.72) Brewster Righter’s wife, Brewster Righter, and Elinor Righter at their parents’ home, Greenwich, Conn., 1935
(.73) Brewster Righter and his wife at the home of his parents, Walter and Eva F. Righter, Greenwich, Conn., 1935
(.74) Walter and Eva F. Righter at their home, Greenwich, Conn., 1935
Elinor Righter's skiing trip in Jackson, New Hampshire in April 1935:
(.75) Sally, Woody, Mary Jane Crocker, April skiing, Jackson, New Hampshire, 1935
(.76) Eddy Currier, Pat, Sally, Woody, April skiing, Jackson, New Hampshire, 1935
(.77) Sally, B. Rice, Woody, April skiing, Jackson, New Hampshire, 1935
(.78) Pat and Woody, April skiing, Jackson, New Hampshire, 1935
(.79) Wild Cat Trail, April skiing, Jackson, New Hampshire, 1935
(.80) Sally and Mary Jane, April skiing, Jackson, New Hampshire, 1935
(.81) Mary Jane and Elinor Righter, April skiing, Jackson, New Hampshire, 1935
(.82) B. Rice and Sally, April skiing, Jackson, New Hampshire, 1935
Elinor Righter's trip to Bermuda in 1935:
(.83-.87) Race Day at Shelley Bay, Bermuda, 1935
(.88-.91) Soucy, Pembroke
(.92-.100) Mid-Ocean, Bermuda
(.101-.105) Golf at the Mid-Ocean, Bermuda
(.106) Elinor Righter, Mid-Ocean, Bermuda
(.107) Elinor Righter with two men, Mid-Ocean, Bermuda
(.108) Mid-Ocean, Bermuda
(.109) Elinor Righter, Mid-Ocean, Bermuda
(.110) house
(.111) Nancy Baker
(.112) crowd of people
(.113) Bermuda Harbor
(.114) Elinor Righter
(.115) Hank and Hal Field with Elinor Righter
(.116) Elinor Righter with a man and Virginia Hubbard (Elinor’s friend & Miss Porters School classmate, godmother of Nora Howard)
(.117) Elinor Righter and Hank Field
(.118) Elinor Righter and Hal Field, Bermuda, 1935
Elinor Righter's trips to Masschusetts and Rhode Island in 1935-1936:
(.119) Hyannisport, Ginny [Virginia Drake] and Gina
(.120) Gina, 1935
(.121-.124) Virginia Drake and Gina, 1935
(.125-.132) On the “Bonne Dundee”, owned by Clifford Mallory, Jr., August 1935
(.133-.141) Edgartown
(.142-.145) Newport, Rhode Island
(.146) Calvin Dail and Elinor Righter, 1936
(.147) En route to Philadelphia, Elinor Righter and Addie Ingram
(.148) Addie Ingram
Righter family members and friends in 1936-1937:
(.149) J. McWilliams (later Julia Child, the cooking teacher and author)
(.150) Patty
(.151) Julia McWilliams (later Julia Child, the cooking teacher and author)
(.152) Sally & Betty
(.153) Hyannisport, 1936
(.154) Gina Lasell
(.155) Ginny [Virginia Drake Hubbard]
(.156) Unidentifed woman
(.157-.160) Unidentified baby, August 1936
(.161) Elinor Righter and Gina Lasell
(.162-.164) Elinor Righter, unidentified woman, and Virginia Drake Hubbard, Hyannisport
(.165) group of people
(.166) Nancy Sherwood, Sally, and Bob Fulton
(.167-.169) Elinor Righter with unidentified women
(.170-.172) Elinor Righter
(.173) Jean McClelland with Dr. and Mrs. Brown
(.174) possibly Eva F. Righter
(.175-.176) Hobe Sound
(.177-.198) England and Scotland, 1937
(.199) Walter Righter and Eva F. Righter
(.200) Walter Righter
(.201) Eva F. Righter with grandson, James Volney Righter
(.202) Hobe Sound, 1937
(.203) Eva F. Righter with grandson, James Volney Righter
Elinor Righter's trip to California in 1938:
(.204-.205) Midwick Club, Pasadena, California
(.206) Bobby Ford and Julia McWilliams (later Julia Child, the cook)
(.207) Julia McWilliams (later Julia Child, the cook)
(.208-.209) Ocean Side, California, 1938
(.210) Julia McWilliams, Bobby Ford, and Molly Bosley
(.211-.212) McWilliams’ House, Ocean Side, California (Julia McWilliams’ parents’ home)
(.213) Bud, Molly Bosley, Julia McWilliams, and Dorothy McWilliams
(.214) Elinor Righter
(.215) Lunch at Oceanside
(.216) McWilliams’ beach house
(.217) Fishing in Pacific
(.218) Dorothy McWilliams, sister of Julia McWilliams
(.219) The Bosley’s (Bud and Molly)
(.220) Julia McWilliams in Mexico
Righter family members and friends in 1938-1939:
(.221-.224) unidentified photos
(.225) Julia and Dorothy McWilliams
(.226) Pasadena
(.227) unidentified woman
(.228) Jean and Dick Buck
(.229-.230) Decoration Day Races, Rye, NY
(.231) Putty
(.232) Bill
(.233) Emily, Betty Kingsley, and Ducky
(.234) Field Club, Greenwich, Conn.
(.235) Getty, Dan Badger, and Adelaide, 1938
(.236) unidentified people
(.237) Tommy Sherwood, Stapley, Bertie Tilt, Putty, and Polly Winham
Elinor Righer's trip to New York City and the 1939 New York World's Fair:
(.238) Bernice Maguire, NYC, 1939
(.239) Elinor Righter, NYC, 1939
(.240) Bernice Maguire, NYC, 1939
(.241) The Plaza, NYC
(.242) Central Park, NYC
(.243) 61st Street, NYC
(.244-.245) Opening Day, World’s Fair, April 30, 1939
(.246) Mrs. Clifford D. Mallory, Jr. and the Marines, Opening Day, World’s Fair, April 30, 1939
(.247) Mrs. Clifford D. Mallory, Jr. and Elinor Righter, Opening Day, World’s Fair, April 30, 1939
(.248) Mal and Elinor Righter at World’s Fair
(.249) Mal, Elinor Righter, Mrs. Mallory, Eva F. Righter, and Brucie Righter (Eva Righter’s grandson)
(.250) Russian Building, World’s Fair
Righter family at the Greenwich Field Club in 1939:
(.251) Putty, Emily Lanier, Eric Kilmer, and F.C., Greenwich Field Club, 1939
(.252) Virginia Drake Hubbard and Ducky, Greenwich Field Club, 1939
(.253) Susan and Eric Archdeacon, Greenwich Field Club, 1939
(.254) Sally and Ducky, Greenwich Field Club, 1939
(.255) Herbie Walker, Emily, Bruce (son of Brewster Righter), Greenwich Field Club, 1939
(.256) Sally Williams Righter and Eva F. Righter (Sally’s husband and Eva’s son, Volney F. Righter, is partially in view), Greenwich Field Club, 1939
Elinor Righter's trip to Mexico in February 1935:
(.1) Leslie, Cuernavaca
(.2) Swimming pool, Cuernavaca
(.3-.4) unidentified scenes in Mexico
(.5) Diego Rivera murals, Cortes Palace, Cuernavaca
(.6) Cortes Palace, Cuernavaca
(.7) Mother [Eva F. Righter] at bedroom door, Cuernavaca
(.8) Cortes Palace, Cuernavaca
(.9) Country Club, Cuernavaca
(.10) Pre-historic alligator at San Anton
(.11) Country Club, Cuernavaca
(.12) Pre-historic alligator at San Anton
(.13-.16) Mexican wedding, Taxco, Mexico, February 1935
(.17) Cathedral and square, Taxco, Mexico
(.18) Public fountain, Taxco, Mexico
(.19-.20) Market, Taxco, Mexico
(.21) En route to Taxco
(.22) Taxco
(.23) View from inside the cathedral, Taxco
(.24) Taxco
(.25-.27) En route to Taxco
(.28-.31) Toltec Pyramid, Xochicalco
(.32) Uncle Volney [Volney Foster, uncle of Elinor Righter] and Elinor Righter
(.33-.41) Xochicalco
(.42) Leslie & Rex & Mr. Fairbanks, Cuernavaca
(.43) Leslie, Mother [Eva Foster Righter], and Uncle Volney [Volney Foster, uncle of Elinor Righter]
(.44-.48) Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan
(.49) Sacrificial mounds, Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan
(.50) Staircase, Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan
(.51) The God Quetzalcoatl, Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan
(.52-.54) Polo, Mexico City
(.55) Mother [Eva F. Righter], Saltonstall, and Elinor Righter, Tepotzotlan
(.56) Indian Market, Toluca
(.57) Market, Toluca
(.58) Monastery, Tepotzptlan
(.59) Market, Toluca
(.60) Toluca
(.61) Vegetables Market, Toluca
(.62) Straw Market, Toluca
(.63) Clothes Market, Toluca
(.64) Horacio Casasùs, Tehuacan
(.65) Edward and Carol Laskas, Tehuacan
(.66) Straw Market, Toluca
(.67) Little boy beggars, Toluca
The Righter family in Greenwich, Connecticut:
(.68) Brewster Righter and his wife at the home of his parents, Walter and Eva F. Righter, Greenwich, Conn., 1935
(.69) Eva F. Righter at her home in Greenwich, Conn., 1935
(.70) Two people at the home of Walter and Eva F. Righter, Greenwich, Conn., 1935
(.71) Walter and Eva F. Righter at their home, Greenwich, Conn., 1935
(.72) Brewster Righter’s wife, Brewster Righter, and Elinor Righter at their parents’ home, Greenwich, Conn., 1935
(.73) Brewster Righter and his wife at the home of his parents, Walter and Eva F. Righter, Greenwich, Conn., 1935
(.74) Walter and Eva F. Righter at their home, Greenwich, Conn., 1935
Elinor Righter's skiing trip in Jackson, New Hampshire in April 1935:
(.75) Sally, Woody, Mary Jane Crocker, April skiing, Jackson, New Hampshire, 1935
(.76) Eddy Currier, Pat, Sally, Woody, April skiing, Jackson, New Hampshire, 1935
(.77) Sally, B. Rice, Woody, April skiing, Jackson, New Hampshire, 1935
(.78) Pat and Woody, April skiing, Jackson, New Hampshire, 1935
(.79) Wild Cat Trail, April skiing, Jackson, New Hampshire, 1935
(.80) Sally and Mary Jane, April skiing, Jackson, New Hampshire, 1935
(.81) Mary Jane and Elinor Righter, April skiing, Jackson, New Hampshire, 1935
(.82) B. Rice and Sally, April skiing, Jackson, New Hampshire, 1935
Elinor Righter's trip to Bermuda in 1935:
(.83-.87) Race Day at Shelley Bay, Bermuda, 1935
(.88-.91) Soucy, Pembroke
(.92-.100) Mid-Ocean, Bermuda
(.101-.105) Golf at the Mid-Ocean, Bermuda
(.106) Elinor Righter, Mid-Ocean, Bermuda
(.107) Elinor Righter with two men, Mid-Ocean, Bermuda
(.108) Mid-Ocean, Bermuda
(.109) Elinor Righter, Mid-Ocean, Bermuda
(.110) house
(.111) Nancy Baker
(.112) crowd of people
(.113) Bermuda Harbor
(.114) Elinor Righter
(.115) Hank and Hal Field with Elinor Righter
(.116) Elinor Righter with a man and Virginia Hubbard (Elinor’s friend & Miss Porters School classmate, godmother of Nora Howard)
(.117) Elinor Righter and Hank Field
(.118) Elinor Righter and Hal Field, Bermuda, 1935
Elinor Righter's trips to Masschusetts and Rhode Island in 1935-1936:
(.119) Hyannisport, Ginny [Virginia Drake] and Gina
(.120) Gina, 1935
(.121-.124) Virginia Drake and Gina, 1935
(.125-.132) On the “Bonne Dundee”, owned by Clifford Mallory, Jr., August 1935
(.133-.141) Edgartown
(.142-.145) Newport, Rhode Island
(.146) Calvin Dail and Elinor Righter, 1936
(.147) En route to Philadelphia, Elinor Righter and Addie Ingram
(.148) Addie Ingram
Righter family members and friends in 1936-1937:
(.149) J. McWilliams (later Julia Child, the cooking teacher and author)
(.150) Patty
(.151) Julia McWilliams (later Julia Child, the cooking teacher and author)
(.152) Sally & Betty
(.153) Hyannisport, 1936
(.154) Gina Lasell
(.155) Ginny [Virginia Drake Hubbard]
(.156) Unidentifed woman
(.157-.160) Unidentified baby, August 1936
(.161) Elinor Righter and Gina Lasell
(.162-.164) Elinor Righter, unidentified woman, and Virginia Drake Hubbard, Hyannisport
(.165) group of people
(.166) Nancy Sherwood, Sally, and Bob Fulton
(.167-.169) Elinor Righter with unidentified women
(.170-.172) Elinor Righter
(.173) Jean McClelland with Dr. and Mrs. Brown
(.174) possibly Eva F. Righter
(.175-.176) Hobe Sound
(.177-.198) England and Scotland, 1937
(.199) Walter Righter and Eva F. Righter
(.200) Walter Righter
(.201) Eva F. Righter with grandson, James Volney Righter
(.202) Hobe Sound, 1937
(.203) Eva F. Righter with grandson, James Volney Righter
Elinor Righter's trip to California in 1938:
(.204-.205) Midwick Club, Pasadena, California
(.206) Bobby Ford and Julia McWilliams (later Julia Child, the cook)
(.207) Julia McWilliams (later Julia Child, the cook)
(.208-.209) Ocean Side, California, 1938
(.210) Julia McWilliams, Bobby Ford, and Molly Bosley
(.211-.212) McWilliams’ House, Ocean Side, California (Julia McWilliams’ parents’ home)
(.213) Bud, Molly Bosley, Julia McWilliams, and Dorothy McWilliams
(.214) Elinor Righter
(.215) Lunch at Oceanside
(.216) McWilliams’ beach house
(.217) Fishing in Pacific
(.218) Dorothy McWilliams, sister of Julia McWilliams
(.219) The Bosley’s (Bud and Molly)
(.220) Julia McWilliams in Mexico
Righter family members and friends in 1938-1939:
(.221-.224) unidentified photos
(.225) Julia and Dorothy McWilliams
(.226) Pasadena
(.227) unidentified woman
(.228) Jean and Dick Buck
(.229-.230) Decoration Day Races, Rye, NY
(.231) Putty
(.232) Bill
(.233) Emily, Betty Kingsley, and Ducky
(.234) Field Club, Greenwich, Conn.
(.235) Getty, Dan Badger, and Adelaide, 1938
(.236) unidentified people
(.237) Tommy Sherwood, Stapley, Bertie Tilt, Putty, and Polly Winham
Elinor Righer's trip to New York City and the 1939 New York World's Fair:
(.238) Bernice Maguire, NYC, 1939
(.239) Elinor Righter, NYC, 1939
(.240) Bernice Maguire, NYC, 1939
(.241) The Plaza, NYC
(.242) Central Park, NYC
(.243) 61st Street, NYC
(.244-.245) Opening Day, World’s Fair, April 30, 1939
(.246) Mrs. Clifford D. Mallory, Jr. and the Marines, Opening Day, World’s Fair, April 30, 1939
(.247) Mrs. Clifford D. Mallory, Jr. and Elinor Righter, Opening Day, World’s Fair, April 30, 1939
(.248) Mal and Elinor Righter at World’s Fair
(.249) Mal, Elinor Righter, Mrs. Mallory, Eva F. Righter, and Brucie Righter (Eva Righter’s grandson)
(.250) Russian Building, World’s Fair
Righter family at the Greenwich Field Club in 1939:
(.251) Putty, Emily Lanier, Eric Kilmer, and F.C., Greenwich Field Club, 1939
(.252) Virginia Drake Hubbard and Ducky, Greenwich Field Club, 1939
(.253) Susan and Eric Archdeacon, Greenwich Field Club, 1939
(.254) Sally and Ducky, Greenwich Field Club, 1939
(.255) Herbie Walker, Emily, Bruce (son of Brewster Righter), Greenwich Field Club, 1939
(.256) Sally Williams Righter and Eva F. Righter (Sally’s husband and Eva’s son, Volney F. Righter, is partially in view), Greenwich Field Club, 1939
Status
Not on view
1944-1945
1944-1945
1939-1945
1944-1945
May 1944
1944 August 30
1944-1945
1944-1945