ladies of the library

The campus library has a new exhibit honoring Florence Nightingale's life. However, I don't how how being represented by a mannequin like this qualifies as an honor.

She's wearing shimmery gold eye shadow, which I do not consider to be in accordance with her time period. I think it likely that the library got this mannequin as a cast-off from a department store and stuck it in an old dress.

I received a couple of funny looks from people as I was conducting Miss Nightingale's photo shoot.

Oh, and this library portrait is indeed a woman. Go figure. Her name is Anne Kristina Morrison Smoot, mother of Reed Smoot. May we all be grateful for the gender-distinguishing hair styles and clothing of today.