#OTD in 1932
Cover of The New Yorker, October 8, 1932
Rea Irvin
#TheNewYorkerCover #ReaIrvin #foxhunt #horses #highsociety

#OTD in 1930
(the first autumn - the first fall)
Cover of The New Yorker, October 4, 1930
Rea Irvin
#TheNewYorkerCover #ReaIrvin #Eve #devil #autumnleaves #autumn

#OTD in 1938
Cover of The New Yorker, September 24, 1938
Rea Irvin
#TheNewYorkerCover #ReaIrvin #interiordecoration #womensfashion

#OTD in 1932
(Elections! [which will bring FDR and the New Deal])
Cover of The New Yorker, September 24, 1932
Rea Irvin
#TheNewYorkerCover #ReaIrvin #politics #elections #campaignspeech

#OTD in 1937
Cover of The New Yorker, September 18, 1937
Rea Irvin
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#OTD in 1934 - Red Cap porters
#TheNewYorkerCover, Sept. 15, 1934
#ReaIrvin
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‘The Red Cap Porter profession [is] associated with post Reconstruction African American heritage. It was a practice of railroad station porters wearing red-colored caps to distinguish them from ➡️

#OTD in 1929
(new culinary - and cultural - horizons)
Cover of The New Yorker, September 14, 1929
Rea Irvin
#TheNewYorkerCover #ReaIrvin #ChineseCuisine

#OTD in 1930
Cover of The New Yorker, September 13, 1930
Rea Irvin
#TheNewYorkerCover #ReaIrvin #golf #croquet

#OTD in 1936
(hopeful [or wishful?] political allegory in an election year)
Cover of The New Yorker, September 12, 1936
Rea Irvin
#TheNewYorkerCover #ReaIrvin #GreatDepression #Deficit #nationaldebt #governmentspending

#OTD in 1925
(social whirl?)
Cover of The New Yorker, September 12, 1925
Rea Irvin
#TheNewYorkerCover #ReaIrvin #carousel #merrygoround

How does this New York high-society girl measure up?
Cover of The New Yorker, September 4, 1943
Rea Irvin
#TheNewYorkerCover #ReaIrvin #WW2