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Sara Carles Johns sketches

 Collection
Identifier: SC.228

Scope and Contents

This collection holds sketches of women's outerwear.

Dates

  • Creation: 1940-1959

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Access is open to researchers by appointment at the Fashion Institute of Technology Library, Department of Special Collections and FIT Archive. If you have any questions, or wish to schedule an appointment contact us at [email protected] or call (212) 217-4385.

Conditions Governing Use

The Department of Special Collections and FIT Archive does not own copyright for all material held in its physical custody. It is the researcher's obligation to abide by and satisfy copyright law (http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#108) when copying or using materials (including digital materials) found in or made available from the department. When possible, the department will inform a researcher about the copyright status of material, the researcher's obligations with regard to such material, and, wherever possible, the owner or owners of the copyrights. Any and all reproduction of originals is at the archivist's discretion.

Biographical / Historical

Sara Carles Johns (1894-1965) was an American artist and fashion illustrator. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1916-1921, where she won the 1919 William Emlen Cresson Memorial Traveling Scholarship. She exhibited at the PAFA annual exhibitions in 1919, 1920, and 1925. In the 1940s Johns studies at Parsons, where she met Akexey Brodovitch and produced several covers for Harper's Bazaar, in the 1940s and 1950s

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Language of Materials

Undetermined

Existence and Location of Originals

The Library of the Fashion Institute of Technology, Department of Special Collections and FIT Archive, 27th St. at 7th Ave., NY, NY , USA, 10003

General

Sara Carles Johns (1894-1965) was an American artist and fashion illustrator. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1916-1921, where she won the 1919 William Emlen Cresson Memorial Traveling Scholarship. She exhibited at the PAFA annual exhibitions in 1919, 1920, and 1925. In the 1940s Johns studies at Parsons, where she met Akexey Brodovitch and produced several covers for Harper's Bazaar, in the 1940s and 1950s

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Title
Sara Carles Johns sketches
Date
2025-06-12
Description rules
Dacs; Isad(g); Lo C
Language of description
English
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
English Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections and FIT Archive Repository

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