1931 photo of NYC architects dressed up as their buildings

On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York City.

Open Culture:

In the picture above, we have from left to right: A. Stewart Walker as the Fuller Building (1929), Leonard Schultze as the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (1931) , Ely Jacques Kahn as the Squibb Building (1930), William Van Alen as the Chrysler Building (1930), Ralph Walker as 1 Wall Street (1931), D.E.Ward as the Metropolitan Tower and Joseph H. Freelander as the Museum of the City of New York (1930). 

This is cropped from the larger photo below.

There's also a short bit of video.

via Althouse