Ball gown

Designer Driscoll

ca. 1900

Not on view

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Title: Ball gown
Designer: Driscoll (American, founded ca. 1864)
Date: ca. 1900
Culture: American
Medium: silk, metallic thread, glass
Credit Line: Gift of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 1976
Object Number: 1976.134.14a, b
Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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