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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
- Dates:
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undated
1875-1926
- Size:
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0.29 Cubic feet (consisting of .5 box, 1 folder, 2 oversize folders.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Costumes
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Costumes forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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National Museum of History and Technology. Division of Costume and Furnishings
- Dates:
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1972-1974
- Size:
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 519
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records chiefly consist of curatorial responses to public inquiries. Included is correspondence from private collectors, museum curators, clothing manufacturers, college professors, historical associations, and individuals.
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National Museum of American History. Division of Costume
- Dates:
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1905-1992
- Size:
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2.5 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 15-185
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the records of curators Claudia Brush Kidwell and Anne Wood Murray documenting exhibition planning, development, and production in the Division of Costume, and when that Division was known as the Division of Costume and Furnishings and the Section of American Costume which, prior to 1969, was within the Division of ...
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Federal Art Project (Pa.)
- Dates:
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1940-1943
- Size:
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0.6 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.fedeartp08
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Handpainted, illustrated plates of period costume designs throughout history, accompanied by descriptive handbooks recounting the historical context of the costumes.
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Costume, Division of (NMAH, SI).
- Dates:
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1928-1989
- Size:
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3 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
23 Film reels
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0801
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Films, videos, tape recordings, and slides on fashion and clothing.
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Hooker-Howe Costume Company
Renaud, Claire
- Dates:
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1922-1938
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1475
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Archival materials documenting the Hooker-Howe Costume Company's (Haverhill, Massachusetts) business providing costumes, wigs, make-up, props and other items for minstrel shows and other amateur theater.
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Michael Travis Costume Design Collection
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Travis, Michael
Lavdas, George
- Dates:
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1947-1986
- Size:
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15 Cubic feet (35 boxes, 1 map-folder
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1347
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains approximately 2,500 costume designs in colored pencil and pastels, on tissue paper mounted on mat boards. The designs were created for entertainers such as Liberace, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Dionne Warwick, the Fifth Dimension, Nancy Sinatra, and others. Some were created for the television show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.
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National Museum of History and Technology. Division of Costume and Furnishings
- Dates:
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1974-1977
- Size:
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 01-026
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of correspondence documenting the research and activities of the Division of Costume and Furnishings during the tenures of Rodris C. Roth, Curator, 1972- ; and Claudia Brush Kidwell, Assistant Curator, 1969-1974, and Associate Curator, 1974- . Materials include curatorial responses to public inquiries, mostly pertaining...
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National Museum of American History (U.S.)
- Dates:
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1988-1989.
- Size:
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2 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0529
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of television advertisements, used in the research for and in some cases, in the exhibition "Men and Women: A History of Costume, Gender and Power". Both U-Matic and VHS video formats are included.
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Soultanakis, Nicholas
Ishioka, Eiko
- Dates:
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2007 - 2011
- Size:
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3.5 Cubic feet (4 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1331
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists mostly of design-related materials for the short-lived Broadway musical "Spiderman: Turn off the Dark." These include images of designs for costume, hair styles, makeup and scenery, presumably used by Ishioka to design the costumes for the show. The collection contains her pencil and ink design drawings for the costumes, fab...