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Famed artist Charles Dana Gibson's wife Irene Langhorne is seen posing for the camera. She was the original model for the "Gibson Girl". U.S.A., 1920. Irene Langhorne Gibson, a native of Danville, Virginia, chaired the Child Planning and Adoption Committee of New York���s State Charities Association for twenty-five years. She founded the New York branch of the Southern Women���s Educational Alliance, was a member of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and helped found and was a director of the Protestant Big Sisters, on whose board she served for many years. Though she was a politically active and influential spokeswoman throughout her life, she may best be known as the incarnation of the Progressive Era���s model ���New Woman������the ���Gibson Girl,��� a social and fashion template created and popularized by her famous illustrator husband, Charles Dana Gibson.