Icons at Leisure in Long-Ago Summers – The New York Times

By AILEEN JACOBSON, MAY 16, 2014 – N.Y. / REGION | ARTS | LONG ISLAND

A self-possessed little girl named Jacqueline Bouvier walking with her pony. Diana Vreeland wearing striped shorts with matching striped earrings. Gary Cooper impeccably dressed in a sport jacket and trousers as he enters a fashionable beach club. These are among the 30 black-and-white images of the rich and famous in “Southampton Blue Book, 1930 to 1960: Photographs by Bert Morgan,” on view at the Rogers Mansion of the Southampton Historical Museums and Research Center through Oct. 18.

“These people are familiar to us — at least to us old-timers, though maybe not to the young,” said Mary Cummings, the show’s curator and the center’s archivist, who grew up in Southampton. As she guided a visitor, Ms. Cummings recalled seeing Mr. Cooper — who was photographed with his wife, Sandra Shaw, around 1950 — in down-to-earth pursuits. “He stood in line to buy crullers at Crutchley’s along with the rest of us,” she said, referring to a now-closed bakery famous for its fried confections. He spent summers in Southampton, she said, and is buried there…

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