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Nineteenth century

 Subject

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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:

Fashion plates, 1840-1849, 1840-1849

 folder
Identifier: SC.111.1.7
Scope and Contents This folder contains 19 fashion plates: 1) Le Bon Ton Journal de Modes, 4 women's plates; 2) Le Cabinet de Lecture & le Voleur réunis, 2 women's plates, Aug. 1842; 3) 1 women's/children's plate by Jules David, "Costumes Français", 1846; 4) Paris Élégant, 3 women's plates, c. 1842; 5) 2 women's/men's plates; 6) 1 women's plate, c. 1848-1855; 7) Sartain's Union Magazine, 3 women's plates, "June", "Fashions for July", and "November" by W. S. Barnard, Nov. 1847-Jun. 1848; 8) 2 women's plates...
Dates: 1840-1849
Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive / Fashion plates and images from the sixteenth to twentieth century / Fashion plates, 1590-1929

Fashion plates, 1850-1859, 1850-1859

 folder
Identifier: SC.111.1.8
Scope and Contents This folder contains 30 fashion plates: 1) Ladies Cabinet, 5 women's/children's plates, Jul. 1850-Apr. 1852; 2) 3 women's/children's plates, "Beilage zur allgemeinen Musterzeitung", Oct. 1850-Oct. 1859; 3) Le Lion, 1 men's/women's/children's plate, Mar. 1855; 4) 3 women's/children's plates, 1859; 5) 1 women's plate, 1858; 6) 1 women's plate, "Modes Françaises", Oct. 1850; 7) L'Iris, 4 women's plates, c. 1853-1855; 8) 1 men's/children's plate; 9) Scott's Mirror of Fashion, 8 men's/children's...
Dates: 1850-1859
Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive / Fashion plates and images from the sixteenth to twentieth century / Fashion plates, 1590-1929

Fashion plates, 1860-1869, 1860-1869

 folder
Identifier: SC.111.1.9
Scope and Contents This folder contains 100+ fashion plates and tear sheets: 1) 1 women's plate by Anaïs Toudouze, c. 1863; 2) Le Monde Élégant, Courrier de la Mode, 2 women's plates, c. 1860-1864; 3) L'Ami des Dames, 1 women's plate by Françoise Claudius Compte-Calix, c. 1861; 4) 1 women's plate, "Dressed for a Party", Sept. 1860; 5) 1 women's plate, "La Toilette de Paris", c. 1865-1866; 6) Le Journal des Dames et des Damoiselles, Edition Belge, 2 women's plates, 1865-1866; 7) Allgemeine Moden-Zeitung, 1...
Dates: 1860-1869
Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive / Fashion plates and images from the sixteenth to twentieth century / Fashion plates, 1590-1929

Fashion plates, 1870-1879, 1870-1879

 folder
Identifier: SC.111.1.10
Scope and Contents This folder contains 19 women's fashion plates: 1) 3 plates, "Toilette de Promenade" and "Toilette des Elegants", c. 1880; 2) Cornelia, 1 plate, Apr. 16, 1878; 3) Il Mondo Elegante, 4 plates, Oct. 3 1870-Mar. 31, 1872; 3) 1 plate, 1872; 4) 1 plate, 1870; 5) The Ladies' Treasury, 1 plate, Jul. 1876; 6) Giornale delle Donne, 1 plate, Jun. 1875; 7) 1 plate, 1876; 8) La Moda del Correo de Ultramar, 1 plate; 9) 1 plate, c. 1878; 10) Le Conseiller des Familles, 1 plate, Jan. 1877; 11) Godey's...
Dates: 1870-1879
Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive / Fashion plates and images from the sixteenth to twentieth century / Fashion plates, 1590-1929

Fashion plates, 1880-1889, 1880-1889

 folder
Identifier: SC.111.1.11
Scope and Contents

This folder contains 3 fashion plates and illustrations: 1) 1 caricature featuring men and women, "Ganz Modern", 1883; 2) 2 women's plates, c. 1880. More materials can be found in oversize boxes.

Dates: 1880-1889
Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive / Fashion plates and images from the sixteenth to twentieth century / Fashion plates, 1590-1929

Fashion plates and images from the sixteenth to twentieth century

 Collection
Identifier: SC.111
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of primary source material from various fashion-related sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The majority of the sources are fashion plates and tear sheets, but there are also sketches, photographs, and advertisements. Most of the images reflect women's and men's fashions, with some children's fashions, as indicated.

Dates: 1590-1960
Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive

International costume carte-de-visite photographs, 1860-1880

 Collection
Identifier: SC.138
Scope and Contents

38 hand-colored carte de visite photographs of individuals and groups wearing European national dress.

Dates: 1860-1880
Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive

May Connor papers, 1890-1915

 Collection
Identifier: SC.218
Scope and Contents Contains 61 fragile articles of correspondence from the 1890s, graduation announcement, poem-prayer book, pressed flowers, wedding invitations, 2 book marks, 2 spools of thread, 1 round silk or satin rigid ribbon, and photograph. Publications include E. Marcus Reynolds: Joy Taylor System; Teacher's College: The Domestic Art Review 1909; Boston Dress Cutting College, Directions for Harriet A Brown's Scientific Rules; Unity Union SS Library Catalogue of Books; National School Domestic Arts and...
Dates: 1890-1915
Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive

Medals, 1855-1909, 1855-1909

 box
Identifier: SC.505.4.1
Scope and Contents

This box contains 10 medals presented to Mme Demorest and William Jennings Demorest for fashion designs, illustrations, patterns, and technological inventions including a miniature gas stove and sewing machine improvements. Awarding institutions include The Holland Society of New York, American Institute New-York, Columbia University, 1853-1908. 1 cased medal presented to William Curtis Demorest by the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909.

Dates: 1855-1909
Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive / Demorest collection, a.k.a. Ransom Family collection, 1854-1909 / Medals, 1855-1909

Oversize fashion plates, 1700-1799, 1700-1799

 folder
Identifier: SC.111.1.16
Scope and Contents

This folder contains 2 oversize men's fashion plates: 1) 1 plate, "Incroyable", by Horace Vernet, printed c. 1814-1815, depicts fashion of 1790s; 2) 1 plate, "Petit-Maitre vetu d'un Habit à large revers...". More materials can be found in standard size boxes.

Dates: 1700-1799
Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive / Fashion plates and images from the sixteenth to twentieth century / Fashion plates, 1590-1929

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