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Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn, and Wilfrid Hyde-White in formal attire ascend a grand staircase at a ball in a scene from the film My Fair Lady (1964).

English kid glove, embroidered in silk and metal thread, c. 1600; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

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Key People

Agnes Nestor.

Agnes Nestor

American labor leader