Scope and content
Photographs, cartes de visite, tintypes, portrait photographs, catalogs, clippings, fashion magazines and other visual material depicting period fashion styles and clothes. Includes a set of catalogs of clothing fashions from American and French retailers from 1874-1921, including Bedell, Jardinière, Columbia Book of Yarns, the Domestic, Gimbel Brothers, Macy's, McCall Patterns, and E. Butterick and Co. Also included is a small scrapbook of darning and mending samples, and a handpainted postcard.
Dates
- [ca. 1862-1952]
Extent
2.8 cubic feet. (2.8 cubic feet.)
Language of Materials
English
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)