Slim Aarons always had a knack for chronicling just the right people in just the right sort of places.

Perhaps this can be seen nowhere better than the storied Lyford Cay.

A glimpse at what goes on behind the cloistered pink gates.

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Sunbathers on the deck of a yacht, off the coast of the Bahamas, April 1967.

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Leonard Dalsemer, President of the International Paper Company, with his family.

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Commander Edward Whitehead (1908-1978) at. Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, Bahamas, 1974 © Slim Aarons

at. Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, Bahamas, 1974 © Slim Aarons

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Film producer Kevin McClory takes his wife Bobo Segrist and their family for a drive in an ‘Amphicar’ across the harbour at Nassau.

across the harbour at Nassau.

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Tennis in the Bahamas, 1957.

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The bar in the Little Club.

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 Hope Simpson in her Happy Ward-planned house in Lyford Cay, on New Providence Island in the Bahamas, April 1974. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Hope Simpson in her Happy Ward-planned house in Lyford Cay

on New Providence Island in the Bahamas, April 1974. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Gloria Schiff, the twin sister of Consuelo Crespi, with her pet dog and pet birds at Lyford Cay in the Bahamas.

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