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Yearly Listings of Library Updates
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Below is a listing of the latest additions from September 2007 to the present for the The Costume Gallery's Research Library. You may view the listing at no charge but our Library articles and image enlargements may be viewed only by subscription members. To obtain an individual library subscription or click HERE. For group subscriptions please contact: GROUP RATES.
 MARCH 2008 ADDITIONS
 March 12: New slideshow called Early 19th Century Ladies Hats and Bonnets from the Virginia Commonwealth University's (VCU) Fashion Dept. Collection. Each hat is photographed in several views, front, side, back, aerial, and inside. If the hat was made of straw, there is a close-up photograph of the straw'sweave. This collection includes 55 photgraphs. Detailed photos of a rare 1830s calash bonnets are in this collection. Click on the image below to see the slideshow. If you would like to see an index of our Library's slideshows click HERE.
  
FEBRUARY 2008 ADDITIONS
February 25: Another inspirational slideshow called Hawaiian Creatures! These include the creatures I photographed while on a recent Hawaii trip. Today there are 19 slideshow photos in this set. Click on the image below to see the slideshow. If you would like to see an index of our slideshows click HERE.
February 22: Addition of new section to the Library. We now have costume / fashion slideshows!!! The first slideshows are from my recent trip to Hawaii. I am always looking for new inspirations for color, line, and design for fashion and costume. Hawaii is the place to be inspired! The first slideshow is of a Hawaiian sunset dancer and the second slideshow is the sunset she was looking at while dancing. Together the slideshows total 29 photos. Click on the images below to see each slideshow.
JANUARY 2008 ADDITIONS
January 25: New addition of Carnival Portrait Paintings on the Canopy Posts of Cą d'Zan Mansion's Gameroom at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida. Today's photos include paintings of clown / masked portraits on the gameroom's posts. The gameroom is decorated as if it were an actual big-top circus tent. The posts are to represent ones similar to those that held up the tent. Each post was painted with portrait on each of the three sides. The artists are unknown, but judging from the painting styles, there were more than one artist. This area of the Library is FREE ACCESS. Other areas are for subscribers.
    
2007 ADDITIONS
DECEMBER 2007 ADDITIONS
December 15: The National Wholesale Dry Goods Association: Pocket Book: List of Firms. There are 1001 fashion or textile businesses are listed from the pocket book, representing 26 states in the U.S.; in total 28 webpages are presented. A jobber was a wholesale salesman. He would use this book for contacts. The master list are the manual pages are first presented in the same order as listed in the book. If one wishes to view by state or city the master listing is divided into states. Please read the directions for viewing this area prior to visiting the webpages.
Directions for viewing the NWDRA Handbook:
- The Handbook is in Excel or spreadsheet format and viewed best in Internet Explorer.
- The TABS across the bottom of the screen can be clicked upon to see their contents. The first two tabs, the Master List, p. 3-19 and p. 20-35, are listed exactly like they appear in the book. I divided the master list by states to make it easier for the reader to find businesses by their location. Twenty-six states are represented and have their own spreadsheets.
- The lower left corner of the spreadsheet, has four small arrows. If you click on the right side arrows, the spreadsheet will move to the tabs on the right. The large center arrows will move the spreadsheet one tab at a time. The outer arrows will move to the beginning or end of the spreadsheet.
- The state pages are listed alphabetically by cities/towns. The cities/town names are in capital letters. Please note that New York City and Philadelphia have very long listings. There are cities listed before and after these two large cities.
- You may notice that some businesses have the same address. This is especially true for New York City. Some of these businesses may have shared an office or building. Please keep in mind that some businesses may have an agent or buyer with an office in a major city and the factory located in another city or state.
- A qualification to be listed in this pocket book was that a business must have generated of at least $1,000,000 annually.
- On the far left of each spreadsheet is a column titled "CODE." This is a code for the jobber used to know the type of business it was. For example, if a business only sold to wholesalers. All the code pages have not been made. Presently A-E code pages are active links.
NOVEMBER 2007 ADDITIONS
November 2: A Year in Fashion: 1865. Article including fashion illustrations from a January 1865 issue of Peterson's Magazine. This article shows women, two girls, and a boy's latest fashions. Subscribers may click on the image below to view the article.
SEPTEMBER 2007 ADDITIONS
September 27: New addition of two antique pattern catalogs of men and women's costumes published in the years 1897 and 1900. The catalogs show a variety of costumes from history, masquerade, carnivals, operas, plays, fancy dress/costumed parties, and fantasy. Below are some examples of costumes in the catalogs:
    
September 10: A Year in Fashion: 1858. Alphabet embroidery patterns from a January 1858 issue of Godey' Lady's Book and Magazine. The letters F, G, & H are available. These letter patterns are really cute with people making up each letter. I have made the patterns in two sizes for subscribers to download. Pattern sizes medium (size 5" height @ 72 dpi) and large (size 10" height @ 72 dpi). To date, A - H are online.
  
September 6: Textile Reference Manual: Nine definitions from an 1894 Cole's Dry Goods Dictionary: oil skin, oiled silk, paper linge, pina-cloth / pine-cloth / pineapple-cloth, reel (silk), shroud, spick-span-new, valentia, and vegetable flannel.
September 5: Textile Reference Manual: Thirteen additional definitions and two charts from an 1894 Cole's Dry Goods Dictionary:
Charts: Fabric Widths Listed by Manufacturers: Domestic Gingham and Ticking.
Definitions: gros-grain / grosgrain / silk mohair, Guipure / clung Guipure / vellum lace, gingham, hatching (embroidery / weaving), hatching, helix (sewing needles), hosier (hosiery trades / business), housewife's cloth, huckabuck, line (buttons), madras gingham, needle-loom (manufacturing), seersucker / seersucker gingham, and zephur gingham.
September 2: Textile Reference Manual: Thirteen definitions from an 1894 Cole's Dry Goods Dictionary: clock (embellishment), cloth, cloth measure, cloth of gold, cold tar colors (dye), coburg, cobweb lawn, cochineal (dye), cockle (finish), cocoa fibre, composition cloth, convert cloth, and cony fur.
Yearly Listings of Library Updates
2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007
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