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Erisava Staff Jul 21

Souvenir of an "International Ball" (Portrait of Miss Kathleen Bruce) by Charles Haslewood Shannon, 1907

Cleveland Museum of Art · wikidata.org

Souvenir of an "International Ball" (Portrait of Miss Kathleen Bruce)

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Apparently the woman here later married the Antarctic explorer Robert Scott — though you'd never guess it from the title, which barely names her and calls the whole thing a keepsake from a fancy-dress ball.