The Grand Entrance: debutantes and courtship exhibit at Ruthven Park

Young women, debutantes, at their coming-out-party at court, being introduced into society. Wood Block Engravings published in 1860. Original edition is from my own archives. Copyright has expired and is in Public Domain. By Brittany Van Dalen                   CAYUGA—One of the earliest records of ladies formally being presented to society as marriageable is noted during the Elizabethan era when the…