We can't stop staring at the cat's expression in this photo ca. 1900-1914. It comes from the National Library of Medicine's Images from the History of Medicine collection on JSTOR, featuring more than 40,000 open access photographs and illustrations!
An important undergraduate in the Ziegfeld Training School for nurses. She is here depicted as the nurse in the current Follies caricature of Mr. W. Shakespeare’s well-known five-reel heart-thriller—”Romeo and Juliet.” The age of the nurse is open to fair-minded criticism—but no word of carp or cavil could possibly be breathed in regard to her qualifications as a ministering angel. —Vanity Fair, August 1916
Publicity photograph of Justine Johnstone in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1916
I've been researching a lot of vintage fashion illustrations on Pinterest and found this piece that I thought fit these two well, right down to the colour coordination, so I had to draw them in this pose 😂💖