The California Shop Records
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California Shop.
Kemp, Helen Misch, 1894-1948 (store owner/manager)
Kemp, Barbara
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1938-1942.
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1 Cubic foot
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0572
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of photographs, typewritten manuscripts and a book that was used as both a visitors log for the shop and a scrapbook containing newspaper and magazine clippings, announcements and invitations to fashion shows. The manuscripts document Kemp's ideas relating to why she started the California Shop. Photographs document the sho...
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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
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circa 1619-1965
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4.7 Cubic feet (consisting of 8.5 boxes, 1 folder, 17 oversize folders, 3 map case folders, 1 flat box (partial), plus digital images of some collection material. )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Ladies
- 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: Ladies' Clothing 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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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
- Dates:
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circa 1833-1944
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0.59 Cubic feet (consisting of 1 box, 4 folders, 2 oversize folders, 1 map case folder, plus digital images of some collection material. )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Clothing
- 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: Clothing 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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ANONYMOUS
Thayer, A.T., Miss
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undated
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7 Items
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7593A
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Includes both men's and women's clothing, including two paints, one skirt, and four robes. Made of papers in various color. They are burned to make the available for use by the dead in the netherworld. The sizes vary: pants are 13x10 cm and 16x 11 cm; robes are 19x18 cm, 18x21 cm, 18x16.5 cm, and 20.3x17.7 cm; skirts are 10.2x11.3 cm.
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Reisler, Lillian
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circa 1950-1953, 1985
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11 Prints (color polaroid)
2 hand-colored Christmas cards
4 Prints (silver gelatin)
1 Postcard (color halftone)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.95-39
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs made by Lillian Reisler in Korea circa 1950-1953. They depict Korean artifacts, including images of clothing, pipes, a hat, a purse, and a bamboo pillow, as well as a group of fortune tellers, a woman smoking a pipe, and a street scene with women bearing loads on their heads. The collection also includes a commercial postcard depicitn...
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Wright, Mary Irwin
- Dates:
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undated
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1 Drawing
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4949
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
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Hart, Schaffner and Marx.
Costume, Division of (NMAH, SI).
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1901-1955
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6 Cubic feet (17 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0426
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection falls roughly into 4 parts. Series 1 is primarily composed of the company's history and its advertising, including a number of style books. The historical materials highlight the firm's importance in the men's clothing industry; the style books are a valuable record of styles in men's clothing during the first half of the 20th cent...
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Peri, Eve, 1897-1966
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circa 1900-1996, bulk 1939-1966
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0.6 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.perieve
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of painter and embroidery artist Eve Peri measure 0.6 linear feet and date from circa 1900 to 1996 with the bulk of materials dating from 1939 to 1966. The papers are scattered and include biographical materials, travel documents, correspondence, financial records, printed material, designs for embroidered clothing, and photographs.
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Sevruguin, Antoin, 1851-1933
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1880s-1930
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1 gelatin silver print (b&w)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2012.04
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- On recto of the print, faded handwritten number (inked, probably by Antoin Sevruguin) reads, "751."
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Sun, Ming-ju
Sun, Ming-ju
- Dates:
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undated
circa 1972-2002
- Size:
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2 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0897
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Fashion drawings and the photographic work of Ming-Ju Sun while as an employee of Garfinckel's Department Store and as an independent artist.