Fashion & Costume
thread, sewing, samples, sample set, cotton thread, silk thread
J & P Coats and Gudebrod Brothers Company, c1880. The first sample thread set in this collection was produced by...
Price: $120.00
Made by Hand, Paper Dolls, Watercolor, Fashion
A 6 1/2" handmade paper dolls with fine brown ringlets dressed in pantaloons and a slip (pencil drawn) and brown...
Price: $250.00
Pretend Play, Paper Dolls, advertising to Children, Coffee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin: John Hoffmann & Sons Co., [1895]. A 5 1/2" x 7 1/2" uncut paper doll printed on card...
Price: $85.00
Pretend Play, Paper Dolls, advertising to Children, Health and Wellness
Ossining, NY: The Sterizol Co., [1920]. An 8" x 6 1/4" uncut advertising paper doll sheet with 6" "Happiness" with...
Price: $75.00
crepe paper, play, costume, made from paper, hat, fashion, party...
Chicago, IL: Van Housen, 1920. A trade catalogue for the company call Van Housen, based in Chicago, which sold paper...
Price: $100.00
Dolls, Sewing Patterns, Germany
Germany: c.1900. German sewing patterns and instructions for making bathing costumes and accessories for a porcelain doll, housed in the...
Price: $225.00
Coat Dress, Side-tiered Dress, Basque Dress, Self-Trimmed Wrap, Coats and...
Scranton, Penn: Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences, Inc., 1923. Soft cover. Unpaginated. Woman's Fall & Winter Fashion. Contains...
Price: $95.00
One-Piece Dress, Draped Dress, Costume Suit, Sports Apparel, Misses' Costumes...
Scranton, Penn: Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences, Inc., 1923. Soft cover. Unpaginated. Woman's Springtime Fashion. Contains Variations of...
Price: $95.00
Sewing Patterns,Women's Clothing
New York and Paris: 1871-1904. A group of four (4) catalogs of Victorian and Edwardian women's fashion. All are illustrated...
Price: $250.00
Life Preservers, Safety Equipment, Nautical and Maritime
New York, New York: International Life Suit Corporation, 1910s. Advertising handbill for the Ever-Warm Safety-Suit, a diving suit akin to...
Price: $125.00
Retail Displays,American Consumerism,Fashion,Deco
Chicago, Illinois: Zouri Metals Company, 1920s. Illustrated folding advert for Zouri brand constructed display windows, marketed to retail businesses as...
Price: $100.00
Musicology, Japanese Culture, Art and Design, Cultural Appropriation, Exoticism
1913. Illustrated bifolium program (11" by 8") for a performance given by Albert Gale and his wife Martha Brockway Gale...
Price: $150.00
Social History, Popular Culture, WW2, SPARS, WACS, WAVES, fashion, historical...
1987-2011. This collection of 28 paper dolls by the Jones Sisters, a pair of women, named Barbara Plummer and Barbara...
Price: $650.00
Paper Dolls, Gender Roles, Decorative Papers
Springfield, Massachusetts: McLoughlin Brothers, Inc., c.1935. Uncut paper doll book featuring two standing paper dolls (Mary and Madge) with 6...
Price: $125.00
Social History and Classes, Paper Dolls, Costume and Fashion, Pretend...
Paris: H. Rousseau, [1855]. An untitled elaborate paper doll set with room setting. The litho on the cover depicts one...
Price: $2,500.00
caricatures] [cartoons] [C.D. Gibson
New York: R.H. Russell, 1899. unpaginated, brown cloth gilt title, black and white sketches throughout mixed with minimal text, enclosed...
Price: $300.00
1950s Americana,Kitsch,Gender Roles
United States: 1950s. Original photograph of a delightfully kitschy display of Western or cowboy-style clothing, "Boys' Corral", complete with cowboy...
Price: $100.00
Women in Librarianship,History of Hats and Bonnets,History of Women and...
Danvers, Massachusetts: 1930s. A charming promotional leaflet for talks given by Eleanor Coray Forman on the history of women and...
Price: $125.00
Pretend Play, Paper Dolls, Social History, Women's History
1908-1913. Color newspaper paper dolls series of a good little girl who is always very careful about her dress. Printed...
Price: $375.00
paper dolls, woman's history, fashion, school girl
Racine , WI: Whitman Publishing Co., 1943. Two punch out dolls, Peg and Dot, with six (6) uncut color costume...
Price: $150.00
Overlay, Metamorphosis, Made by Hand, Social History, Women's History
1805. A 3.5" x 3" watercolor bust of a women gazing slightly to the right on 6" x 5 1/4"...
Price: $3,200.00
clothing and dress] [humor
London: Riddle Book LTD, c. 1945. Illustrated board, pages split horizontally to create multiple images, color illustrations throughout, cover states...
Price: $40.00
Original art, Made by Hand, Paper Dolls, Social History
9.29. Four (4) original watercolor designs are attributed to Jane Langton while a graduate student at Radcliffe. Although not signed...
Price: $375.00
Morocco, Gold Tooling, Ladies' Fashion
Heidelberg, Germany: 1853. Fine gilt morocco glove box made for Louise Sommer by Joseph Sommer of Heidelberg. A beautiful example...
Price: $550.00