Theatre & Costume Image Resources
- ARTstor This link opens in a new windowUsers must create a free account (or link an existing JSTOR account) for access and to download images.
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A digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences for research and pedagogical purposes.
- Costume Collection: Search- Detroit Historical Museums Historic Costume Collection
- Dorothea June Grossbart Historic Costume Collection (Wayne State University)
- Meadow Brook Hall Historic Costume Collection
- The Henry Ford Costume Collection - The Costume Site"Online Costuming Sources for Historical, Science Fiction & Fantasy Costumers"
- Costumer's Manifesto"your free one-stop shop for costume information & images"
- Costumer's Manifesto -- Timelines of Costume Historylink to old website
- Fashion Plate Collection (University of Washington)"consists of 417 digital images chosen from a larger group of fashion plates."
- Theatre Image Collections Onlineprovides links to other resources
- University of Virginia Collection of Historic Dressdisplays evening gowns from the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
- Vogue Archive (ProQuest) (1892+) This link opens in a new window"The full contents of Vogue magazine (US edition) in full color page image, from the first issue in 1892 to the present, with monthly updates for new issues."
Search for title keyword "stage" to retrieve recurring entries for "Seen on the Stage" and "Dress on the Stage"
- The Costume Institute (Metropolitan Museum of Art)"Seven centuries and five continents of fashionable dress, regional costumes, and accessories for men, women, and children, up to the present"
- The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939 by"includes over 13,000 images of items selected from the Federal Theatre Project Collection at the Library of Congress. Featured here are stage and costume designs, still photographs, posters, and scripts for productions of Macbeth and The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus as staged by Orson Welles, and for Power, a topical drama of the period (over 3,000 images). Also included are 68 other playscripts (6,500 images) and 168 documents selected from the Federal Theatre Project Administrative Records (3,700 images)."
- Motley Collection of Theatre & Costume Design (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)"a rare collection of original materials on the theatre comprising over 5000 items from more than 150 productions in England and the United States. These materials include costume and set designs, sketches, notes, photographs, prop lists, storyboards, and swatches of fabric."
Slide Collections in the UCF Library
- A History of Costume in Slides, Notes, and Commentaries byCall Number: Main Library Special Collections Oversize -- TT504.B98 1975ch3ck availability
Documents in detail the historical development of both men's and women's fashion from ancient Egyptian times to the twentieth century. (1186 color slides)
- v. 1. 3100 B.C. to 1100 A.D.
- v. 2. 1100 to 1510
- v. 3. 1500- 1615
- v. 4. 1615 to 1785
- v. 5. 1785 to 1930.
The following slide collections are available for Faculty Checkout Only.
- Architecture, Interiors & Furniture byCall Number: Main Library Special Collections -- NA202.S25 1978ch2ck availability
The slides and text for each period are side by side in eight bound ringbinder volumes with slip cases. (1900 color slides)
- v. 1. 2800 B.C.-150 B.C. Egypt, Crete-Mycenae, Greece
- v. 2. 350 B.C.-325 A.D. Rome, Pompeii
- v. 3. 250-1200. Early Christian, Byzantine, Romanesque
- v. 4. 660-1540. Gothic, English Medieval
- v. 5. 1420-1600. Italian Renaissance
- v. 6. 1500-1750. European Renaissance, Baroque
- v. 7. 1600-1800. France, England
- v. 8. 1800-1975. Europe, United States.