Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Dorothy Strelsin, and Alfred Strelsin holding an infant Erik Jeremy Ross in their Fifth Avenue apartment [photograph].

BIB_ID
450245
Accession number
MA 23840.337a
Display Date
[New York] : [manufacturer not specified], [February 1967]
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 photograph : color ; 8.9 x 12.8 cm
Notes
Date stamped on verso.
Enclosed in a letter from James Ivory to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala dated February 13, 1967 [see MA 23840.337].
Subjects and setting identified by James Ivory on a post-it note accompanying photograph and letter: "Al & Dorothy Strelsin, with Erik Ross in their Fifth Avenue apartment-- probably taken by Lillian [Ross]."
Summary
Half-length snapshot of Dorothy Strelsin, American socialite and philanthropist (1913-2001) (left) and her husband Al Strelsin, businessman and philanthropist (1898-1976) (right); Al is holding a very young Erik Jeremy Ross, son of Lillian Ross (1918-2017).
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