LibGuides: UGS 303: Clothing/Costume as Culture / Mickey: Find images

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Vogue Archive
high quality reproductions of Vogue, 1892 - present
Women's Magazine Archive
high quality digital reproductions of many titles in women's interest - late 19th c. to 2005.
ARTstor
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Women's Wear Daily Archive
High resolution copy of the magazine, 1910 to current.

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The Play Pictorial
Call Number: PN 2001 P568 Fine Arts Library

Publication Date: 1902-1939

English theatrical magazine that details costumes.
Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion by Oxford University Press
Call Number: GT 507 E54 2010 Fine Arts Library

Publication Date: 2010

v. 1. Africa v. 2. Latin America and the Caribbean v. 3. The United States and Canada v. 4. South Asia and Southeast Asia v. 5. Central and Southwest Asia v. 6. East Asia v. 7. Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands v. 8. West Europe / edited by Lise Skov -- v. 9. East Europe, Russia, and the Caucasus v. 10. Global perspectives

We chose these in part because the reproductions are of high quality and the metadata (or descriptive information) is very good. It's suboptimal to search for images on the Web and to be unsure of the origin, content or creator of the image, to say nothing of the quality.

American Memory
Photos (and more) from the Library of Congress of American life
Europeana Fashion
fashion from private and museum fashion archives.
LIFE Magazine Photo Archives
both published and unpublished photos from the magazine.
New York Public Library fashion images
Images from NYPL's digitized collections.
British Library Flickr
Limited to items tagged with fashion or costume