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Costume design.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

ATHM Textile Industry Film

 Collection
Identifier: 6524/009 F
Scope and Contents Although this volume contains listings labeled cotton manufacturing accounts, woolen manufacturing accounts, gristmill, and store, as well as Northboro Manufacturing Co., it is thought to be a journal of that company. The entries show evidence of the barter system in practice at this time, listing sums due for dressing cloth, carding, weaving, repairing a spinning jenny, etc. The names of workers or customers are listed for each entry. Goods sold include corn, barley, straw, gin, candles,...
Dates: undated

Dorothy Schefer Faux fashion collection

 Collection
Identifier: 8572
Abstract

Collection offers a depth of material related to fashion design in the later half of the 20th century with most dating from the 1990 to 2016.

Dates: 1931-2022

Fashion collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6343
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...
Dates: [ca. 1862-1952]

Fashion forecasting books

 Collection
Identifier: 8742
Scope and Contents

Collection consists mainly of books by Carlin Creative Trend Bureau in Paris and they cover all categories: women’s, men’s, activewear, sweaters, kids, textiles, color, yarns, and home interiors.

Dates: 2008 - 2014

Hermann Herrey papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3476
Abstract Drawings, paintings, plans and photographs (including glass plate negatives) of architectural work, planning projects, stage designs, industrial designs, furniture and inventions. Also includes correspondence, biographical material, lecture notes, talks and reports; writings in city and regional planning, economic development, architecture, theater and related fields. Also, manuscript of a novel written by Herrey in the 1930s; and a play written under the pseudonym of Gilbert Tanner,...
Dates: [ca.1939]-1971.