Friends and Colleagues,

The young woman was pretty.  Her silk taffeta gown rustled becomingly when she curtsied, an old world custom that managed not to seem out of place at the Debutante Cotillon held at the Shenorock Shore Club in Rye.  The spray of gardenias on her bosom was fragrant but not overpowering.  Her father seems proud and confident with his daughter on his arm.

The year was 1957.  The memories of the war to end all wars were starting to fade.   The post-war economy  was booming.  The future seemed bright. 

The upheavals of the next decade were unknown.  Jackie Kennedy in an open convertible bending over her slain husband while wearing a pillbox hat.  The Beatles with their screaming fans, and their haircuts which outraged parents across the land.  An unpopular war.  Protests in the streets.  And seemingly an unending string of assassinations which roiled the nation.

All of this was unknown at the Westchester Cotillion of 1957.  The pretty young woman was off to Sweetbriar College in Virginia.  She graduated in 1961, and promptly married a Naval reserve officer.

These pictures show a slice of American life before the upheavals of the 1960s.  Did trouble lie ahead, or did progress?  I expect it was an amalgam of both.

Cheers,
Nick

[Barbara Janet Billo]. [DEBUTANTE] [SOCIETY] PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM. Price: $125.00	Laurence Hope. [POETRY] THE GARDEN OF KAMA AND OTHER LOVE LYRICS FROM INDIA. Price: $75.00

Fielding H. Garrison. [MEDICINE] AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. WITH MEDICAL CHRONOLOGY, BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA AND TEST QUESTIONS. Price: $250.00	Bernarr Macfadden. [LITERATURE] THE ATHLETE’S CONQUEST. THE ROMANCE OF AN ATHLETE. Price: $350.00
Malcolm Ross | Carl Carmer [Editor]. [RIVERS OF AMERICA] THE CAPE FEAR. Price: $75.00	Ulysses S. Grant | Gary W. Gallagher. [LIBRARY OF AMERICA] MEMOIRS AND SELECTED LETTERS. PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT. SELECTED LETTERS 1839-1865. Price: $50.00
James Neild. [SIGNED] [LAW] [POVERTY] AN ACCOUNT OF THE RISE, PROGRESS, AND PRESENT STATE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE DISCHARGE AND RELIEF OF PERSONS IMPRISONED FOR SMALL DEBTS THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AND WALES. Price: $300.00	Paul F. Mottelay [Editor]. [CIVIL WAR] THE SOLDIER IN OUR CIVIL WAR [2 VOLUMES]. A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE CONFLICT, 1861-1865, ILLUSTRATING THE VALOR OF THE SOLDIER AS DISPLAYED ON THE BATTLE-FIELD. FROM SKETCHES DRAWN BY FORBES, WAUD, TAYLOR, HALL, BECKER, LOVIE, SCHELL, CRANE, AND NUMEROUS OTHER EYE-WITNESSES TO THE STRIFE. Price: $500.00
Robert Bloch. [LITERATURE] THE OPENER OF THE WAY. Price: $95.00	Luis Croquer, Belgica Rodriguez, Claudia Allwood; Illustrated by Federico Trujillo. [TRAVEL] EL SALVADOR PANORAMICA DE LA PINTURA SIGLO XX A PANORAMA OF 20TH CENTURY PAINTING. Price: $95.00
Eliza Buckminster Lee. [LITERATURE] FLORENCE, THE PARISH ORPHAN: AND A SKETCH OF THE VILLAGE IN THE LAST CENTURY. Price: $225.00	Major G .B. Laurie. [MILITARY] THE FRENCH CONQUEST OF ALGERIA. Price: $200.00
Theodore S Van Dyke. [HUNTING] THE STILL-HUNTER. Price: $200.00	Pierre Messard. [PHILOSOPHY] L’ESSOR DE LA PHILOSOPHIE POLITIQUE AU XVI SIECLE. Price: $125.00
Evagelos Velitzelos Nikos Zouros Geoffrey Cox [Translator]. [NATURE] NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE LESVOS PETRIFIED FOREST THE PETRIFIED FOREST OF LESVOS. Price: $75.00	Lenoir Chambers | Gary W. Gallagher. [CIVIL WAR] [SLIPCASE] STONEWALL JACKSON. [2 VOLUMES] VOLUME ONE: THE LEGEND AND THE MAN TO VALLEY V; VOLUME TWO: SEVEN DAYS I TO THE LAST MARCH. Price: $125.00
George A. Bruce. [SIGNED] [CIVIL WAR] THE CAPTURE AND OCCUPATION OF RICHMOND. Price: $75.00	William J. Seymour | Gary W. Gallagher. [CIVIL WAR] THE CIVIL WAR MEMOIRS OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM J. SEYMOUR. REMINISCENCES OF A LOUISIANA TIGER. Price: $50.00
William Stirling. [RELIGION] THE CANON AN EXPOSITION OF THE PAGAN MYSTERY PERPETUATED IN THE CABALA AS THE RULE OF ALL THE ARTS. Price: $75.00	Lieutenant-General Jubal A. Early | Gary W. Gallagher. [CIVIL WAR] A MEMOIR OF THE LAST YEAR OF THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE, IN THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE OPERATION OF HIS COMMANDS IN THE YEARS 1864 AND 1865. Price: $95.00
James Ronald. [LITERATURE] SHE GOT WHAT SHE ASKED FOR. Price: $150.00	Percy Gatling Hamlin | Gary W. Gallagher [Introduction]. [CIVIL WAR] “OLD BALD HEAD” (GENERAL R. S. EWELL) AND THE MAKING OF A SOLDIER. LETTERS OF GENERAL R. S. EWELL. Price: $250.00
George Bird Grinnell, Charles Sheldon. [HUNTING] HUNTING AND CONSERVATION THE BOOK OF THE BOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB. Price: $125.00	John Updike. [SIGNED] [LITERATURE] MUSEUMS AND WOMEN AND OTHER STORIES. Price: $45.00
Virginia State Convention; Ritchie; Cook. [VIRGINIA LAW] PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE VIRGINIA STATE CONVENTION, OF 1829-30. TO WHICH ARE SUBJOINED, THE NEW CONSTITUTION OF VIRGINIA, AND THE VOTES OF THE PEOPLE. Price: $175.00	J. B. Jones | Howard Swiggett [Editor]. [CIVIL WAR] [SLIPCASE] A REBEL WAR CLERK’S DIARY AT THE CONFEDERATE STATES CAPITAL [2 VOLUMES]. Price: $250.00