At the Montreal Historical Ball, Mary Van Horne, sister of railway magnate Sir William Van Horne, portrayed the seventeenth-century character Madame Jolliet, in the Explorers, Discoverers, and Visitors set, in reference to her home town of Joliet, Illinois.
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Montreal, 1898 Label: Miss K. Cunningham, Costumier, 2070 St. Catharines Street, Montreal Silk satin with moiré stripe; silk satin underskirt; cotton velveteen ribbon and cotton lace trim Loan courtesy of the McCord Museum of Canadian History, M992x.1.6.1 © McCord Museum |
Montreal, 1898 W. Notman Notman Photographic Archives, McCord Museum of Canadian History 123036 © McCord Museum |
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