Fashion print scrapbooks
circa 1800-1913
- Collection Overview
- Scope and Contents note
- Organization and Arrangement
- Administrative Information
- Keywords for Searching Related Subjects
- Collection Inventory
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Guide to the Fashion print scrapbooks, circa 1800-1913
Collection Overview
- Repository
- Kellen Design Archives
- Creator
- Parsons School of Design.
- Title
- Fashion print scrapbooks, circa 1800-1913
- Extent
- 25.6 linear ft: 19 scrapbooks
- Summary
- Consists of 19 scrapbooks containing more than 10,000 prints of fashion illustrations produced between the early 1800s and 1913. The prints primarily depict men's, women's, and children's clothing and accessories, with a small number of images depicting theatrical costumes, architectural and sculptural details, and textile designs. One scrapbook contains swatches of French and Asian textiles. Many of the images were issued originally as portfolio prints, others cut from books and periodicals, such as Graham's Magazine and Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine. The majority of the earlier prints are of French origin.
Scope and Contents note
The collection consists of more than 10,000 prints mounted into nineteen scrapbooks and loose pages. While a small portion of the prints depicts architecture and the decorative arts, the bulk of the collection centers on costume of the mid to late 1800s and the early 1900s. The majority of the prints depict women's clothing, although men's and children's clothing of the early 1900s is also included. Prints include engravings, lithographs and half-tone photographs, some hand-colored.
The prints in the collection were originally published in American and French pictorial magazines, including The Delineator (May 1898); Fashions: An Illustrated Monthly Journal (October 1902); Ladies Home Journal (July 1892); pages from Gazelle du Bon Ton (1913), Godey's Lady's Book magazine (1848-1952)), Graham's magazine (1840s), Ladies Companion (1840s), Les Modes Parisiennes (1820-1847, 1864), and Un Siecle de Modes Feminines (1894). Other materials pasted into the scrapbooks appear to be advertising materials published by French firms, particularly Daydou Fils.
The scrapbooks were likely assembled by early Parsons The New School for Design administrators or librarians as a reference for students studying costume design. They are particularly useful for the study of fashion design and merchandising history, lifestyle marketing, and the development of commercial illustration and early fashion photography.
Organization and Arrangement
Scrapbooks are arranged by subject and chronologically within each subject area.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Kellen Design Archives February 15, 2011
66 5th Ave./lobby level/
New York, NY, 10011
212.229.5942
archivist@newschool.edu
Use Restrictions
To publish images of material from this collection, permission must be obtained in writing from the Kellen Design Archives. Please contact: archivist@newschool.edu.
Custodial History note
Collection probably assembled by library staff. Internal transfer to Kellen Design Archives.
Keywords for Searching Related Subjects
Genre(s)
- Clippings (information artifacts).
- Scrapbooks.
- Textiles.
Subject(s)
- Advertising -- Fashion.
- Children's clothing -- Pictorial works.
- Costume -- United States -- 19th century -- Pictorial works.
- Costume -- United States -- 20th century -- Pictorial works.
- Fashion drawing.
- Fashion merchandising.
- Magazine illustration.
- Men's clothing -- Pictorial works.
- Women's clothing -- Pictorial works.
Collection Inventory
| Title | Box | Folder | ||
| Architectural drawings "Decorations Interieures - Vol. 1" | OSx-1 | 1 | ||
| European architecture and statuary, 1858-1912 | OSx-1 | 2-7 | ||
| Women's fashions circa 1834-1913 | ||||
| circa 1834-1835, 1870, 1912-1913 | OSx-2 | 1 | ||
| 1862-1876 | OSx-2 | 2 | ||
| 1869-1874, mid-late 1800s | OSx-2 | 3 | ||
| Title | Box | Folder | ||
| 1907-1909 | OSx-2 | 4-8 | ||
| OSx-3 | 1-2 | |||
| 1911 | OSx-3 | 3-6 | ||
| 1912-1913 | OSx-4 | 1-2 | ||
| Women's and girl's fashions 1877-1899 | ||||
| 1877-1885 | OSx-4 | 3-5 | ||
| Title | Box | Folder | ||
| 1884-1889 | OSx-4 | 6 | ||
| OSx-5 | 1-2 | |||
| Title | Box | Folder | ||
| 1890-1899 | OSx-5 | 3-7 | ||
| OSx-6 | 1-2 | |||
| Women's and men's fashions 1900-1911 | ||||
| Title | Box | Folder | ||
| 1900-1903 | OSx-6 | 3-6 | ||
| OSx-7 | 1-2 | |||
| Title | Box | Folder | ||
| 1903-1906 | OSx-7 | 3-6 | ||
| OSx-8 | 1 | |||
| 1906 | OSx-8 | 2 | ||
| Title | Box | Folder | ||
| 1905-1908, 1911 | OSx-8 | 3-6 | ||
| OSx-9 | 1-5 | |||
| Women's, men's and children's fashions 1909-1913 | ||||
| Title | Box | Folder | ||
| 1910-1913 | OSx-10 | 1-3 | ||
| OSx-9 | 6 | |||
| Title | Box | Folder | ||
| 1909-1912 | OSx-10 | 4-7 | ||
| OSx-11 | 1-2 | |||
| Women's and girl's fashions by garment type | ||||
| Blouses, coats, dresses, undergarments, 1863-1869 | OSx-11 | 3-7 | ||
| Blouses, collars, dresses, 1800-1863 | OSx-12 | 1-5 | ||
| Title | Box | Folder | ||
| Blouses, collars, dresses, shoes, 1870-1879 | OSx-13 | 1-5 | ||
| OSx-14 | 1-2 | |||
| Coats, dresses, undergarments, accessories, 1864-1912 | OSx-14 | 3-6 | ||
| Hats, capes, bustles, dresses, 1869-1912 | OSx-15 | 1-6 | ||
| Hats, hairstyles, handbags, parasols, 1863-1912 | OSx-16 | 1-6 | ||
| Title | Box | Folder | ||
| Religious vestments, 1863-1913 | OSx-17 | 1 | ||
| Textile, tile and wallpaper designs of the 12th-19th centuries (prints from L'Art Pour Tous), 1869-1878 | OSx-17 | 2 | ||
| Textile samples: French and Asian, 1800-1820 | OSx-17 | 3-6 | ||
| Theatrical costumes including prints from Pygmalion: Soiries au Theatre), 1832-1919 | OSx-18 | 1-6 | ||
| Loose pages and publications | ||||
| Title | Box | Folder | ||
| Fashions: An Illustrated Monthly Journal, 1902 Oct | k_OSx-3 | 9 | ||
| Ladies Home Journal, 1892 Jul | k_OSx-3 | 9 | ||
| Women's, men's and children's fashions, circa 1815-1866 | k_7 | 3-14 | ||