Betty Williams Collection (Mss. Gr. 213)

University of Rhode Island, University Archives and Special Collections

15 Lippitt Road
Kingston, RI 02881-2011
Tel: 401-874-4632

email: archives@etal.uri.edu

Inventory

Series 1. Pattern Companies, 1860-1978
37 box(es)
(18.5 linear feet)

Contains notes, bibliographical and descriptive information on pattern companies. Also contains photocopies of individual pattern descriptions and envelope covers.

Arrangement: Arranged in alphabetical order by pattern company and chronologically thereunder.

Container	Description	Date
Box 1 , Folder 1	Advance	1930s?-1939
Box 1 , Folder 2	Advance	1940-1943
Box 1 , Folder 3	Advance	1944-1945
Box 1 , Folder 4	Advance	1946-1947
Box 1 , Folder 5	Advance	1948-1949
Box 2 , Folder 6	Advance	1950
Box 2 , Folder 7	Advance	1951
Box 2 , Folder 8	Advance	1952
Box 2 , Folder 9	Advance	1953
Box 3 , Folder 10	Advance	1954-1955
Box 3 , Folder 11	Advance	1956-1957
Box 3 , Folder 12	Advance	1958-1959
Box 3 , Folder 13	Butterick	1867-1869
Box 3 , Folder 14	Butterick	1870-1889
Box 4 , Folder 15	Butterick	1890-1899
Box 4 , Folder 16	Butterick	1900-1909
Box 4 , Folder 17	Butterick	1910-1911
Box 4 , Folder 18	Butterick	1912-1914
Box 4 , Folder 19	Butterick	1915-1919
Box 5 , Folder 20	Butterick	1920-1921
Box 5 , Folder 21	Butterick (pattern 3445-3745)	1922 Jan-Mar
Box 5 , Folder 22	Butterick (pattern 3749-4132)	1922 Mar-Dec
Box 5 , Folder 23	Butterick	1923-1924
Box 5 , Folder 24	Butterick	1925
Box 6 , Folder 25	Butterick (pattern 6509-6794)	1926 Jan-Mar
Box 6 , Folder 26	Butterick (pattern 6805-6996)	1926 Mar-Jun
Box 6 , Folder 27	Butterick (pattern 7001-1156)	Jun-Dec 1926
Box 7 , Folder 28	Butterick (pattern 1159-1499)	1927 Jan-Mar
Box 7 , Folder 29	Butterick (pattern 1501-1801)	1927 Mar-Dec
Box 7 , Folder 30	Butterick	1928-1929
Box 7 , Folder 31	Butterick	1930-1934
Box 8 , Folder 32	Butterick	1935-1939
Box 8 , Folder 33	Butterick	1940
Box 8 , Folder 34	Butterick	1941
Box 8 , Folder 35	Butterick	1942-1943
Box 8 , Folder 36	Butterick	1944-1945
Box 9 , Folder 37	Butterick	1946-1947
Box 9 , Folder 38	Butterick	1948-1949
Box 9 , Folder 39	Butterick	1950-1951
Box 9 , Folder 40	Butterick	1952
Box 9 , Folder 41	Butterick	1953
Box 9 , Folder 42	Butterick	1954
Box 9 , Folder 43	Butterick	1955
Box 10 , Folder 44	Butterick	1956
Box 10 , Folder 45	Butterick	1957-1958
Box 10 , Folder 46	Butterick	1959
Box 10 , Folder 46A	Butterick: Metropolitan Fashion Vol.XLV No.1; flyers In oversize	1897, 1892-1898
Box 10 , Folder 47	Demorest's	1860-1897
Box 10 , Folder 48	Domestic	1873-1883
Box 10 , Folder 49	Du Barry	1932-1935
Box 10 , Folder 50	Du Barry	1936-1938
Box 10 , Folder 51	Du Barry	1939-1940
Box 11 , Folder 52	Du Barry	1941
Box 11 , Folder 53	Du Barry	1942
Box 11 , Folder 54	Du Barry	1943
Box 11 , Folder 55	Du Barry	1944-1946
Box 11 , Folder 56	Et Cetera	1826-1908
Box 11 , Folder 57	Et Cetera	1909-1927
Box 11 , Folder 58	Et Cetera	1928-1936
Box 11 , Folder 59	Et Cetera	1937-1951
Box 12 , Folder 60	Et Cetera	1952-1959
Box 12 , Folder 61	Excella	1920-1926
Box 12 , Folder 62	Excella	1927
Box 12 , Folder 63	Excella	1928-1936
Box 12 , Folder 64	Harper's Bazaar	1880's
Box 12 , Folder 65	Hollywood	1932-1936
Box 13 , Folder 66	Hollywood	1937-1938
Box 13 , Folder 67	Hollywood	1939
Box 13 , Folder 68	Hollywood	1940-1941
Box 13 , Folder 69	Hollywood	1942-1943
Box 13 , Folder 70	Hollywood	1944
Box 13 , Folder 71	Hollywood	1945-1949
Box 14 , Folder 72	Journal Des Demoiselles	1890-1913
Box 14 , Folder 73	Ladies Home Journal	1905-1919
Box 14 , Folder 74	Ladies Home Journal	1920-1922
Box 14 , Folder 75	Ladies Home Journal	1923-1924
Box 14 , Folder 76	Ladies Home Journal	1925-1927
Box 14 , Folder 77	Ladies Home Journal	1928-1929
Box 15 , Folder 78	Ladies Home Journal (pattern 6140-6345)	1929
Box 15 , Folder 79	Ladies Home Journal (pattern 6348-6522)	1930
Box 15 , Folder 80	Ladies Home Journal (pattern 6523-6660)	1930
Box 15 , Folder 81	Ladies Home Journal	1931-1938
Box 16 , Folder 82	May Manton	1900-1921
Box 16 , Folder 83	McCall's	1870-1899
Box 16 , Folder 84	McCall's	1900-1905
Box 16 , Folder 85	McCall's	1906-1911
Box 16 , Folder 86	McCall's	1912-1915
Box 17 , Folder 87	McCall's	1916-1919
Box 17 , Folder 88	McCall's	1920-1923
Box 17 , Folder 89	McCall's	1924-1926
Box 17 , Folder 90	McCall's	1927
Box 18 , Folder 91	McCall's (pattern 4950-5132)	1927
Box 18 , Folder 92	McCall's	1928
Box 18 , Folder 93	McCall's	1929
Box 18 , Folder 94	McCall's	1930-1933
Box 19 , Folder 95	McCall's	1934-1935
Box 19 , Folder 96	McCall's	1936
Box 19 , Folder 97	McCall's	1937
Box 19 , Folder 98	McCall's	1938-1940
Box 20 , Folder 99	McCall's	1941-1942
Box 20 , Folder 100	McCall's	1943-1944
Box 20 , Folder 101	McCall's	1945
Box 20 , Folder 102	McCall's	1946
Box 20 , Folder 103	McCall's	1947
Box 21 , Folder 104	McCall's	1948
Box 21 , Folder 105	McCall's	1949
Box 21 , Folder 106	McCall's	1950
Box 21 , Folder 107	McCall's	1951-1952
Box 21 , Folder 108	McCall's	1953
Box 22 , Folder 109	McCall's	1954
Box 22 , Folder 110	McCall's	1955-1956
Box 22 , Folder 111	McCall's	1957-1958
Box 22 , Folder 112	McCall's	1959
Box 23 , Folder 113	McCall's	1960-1978
Box 23 , Folder 114	McCall's Book of Fashion (in oversize)	1913-1919
Box 23 , Folder 115	McCall's Couture	1925-1929
Box 23 , Folder 116	McCall's Couture	1925-1928
Box 23 , Folder 116A	McCall's Pattern Book (in oversize)	1910-1919
Box 23 , Folder 117	McCall's Pattern Book 4 vol.(in oversize)	1910-1939
Box 23 , Folder 117A	McCall's Pattern Book (in oversize)	1920-1924
Box 23 , Folder 117B	McCall's Pattern Book (in oversize)	1925-1929
Box 23 , Folder 117C	McCall's Pattern Book (in oversize)	1930-1939
Box 23 , Folder 118	Modern Priscilla	1926-1928
Box 23 , Folder 119	New Idea	1901-1911
Box 24 , Folder 120	New Idea	1912-1919
Box 24 , Folder 121	New York Pattern Company/Hollywood	1920s
Box 24 , Folder 122	New York Pattern Company	1920-1940
Box 24 , Folder 123	New York Pattern Company	1908-1932
Box 24 , Folder 124	New York Pattern Company	1933
Box 24 , Folder 125	New York Pattern Company	1934
Box 24 , Folder 126	New York Pattern Company	1935
Box 25 , Folder 127	New York Pattern Company	1936-1939
Box 25 , Folder 128	New York Pattern Company	1940-1942
Box 25 , Folder 129	Peerless Pattern	1908-1923
Box 25 , Folder 130	Paris Pattern	1929-1933
Box 25 , Folder 131	Photoplay	1947-1951
Box 25 , Folder 132	Pictorial Review	1899-1912
Box 25 , Folder 133	Pictorial Review	1913-1917
Box 26 , Folder 134	Pictorial Review	1918-1921
Box 26 , Folder 135	Pictorial Review	1922-1925
Box 26 , Folder 136	Pictorial Review	1926-1929
Box 26 , Folder 137	Pictorial Review	1930-1939
Box 26 , Folder 138	Silver Screen	1934 -1949
Box 26 , Folder 139	Simplicity	1927-1929
Box 27 , Folder 140	Simplicity	1930-1933
Box 27 , Folder 141	Simplicity	1934-1935
Box 27 , Folder 142	Simplicity	1936
Box 27 , Folder 143	Simplicity	1937
Box 27 , Folder 144	Simplicity	1937
Box 27 , Folder 145	Simplicity	1938
Box 27 , Folder 146	Simplicity	1938
Box 28 , Folder 147	Simplicity	1939
Box 28 , Folder 148	Simplicity	1940
Box 28 , Folder 149	Simplicity	1941
Box 28 , Folder 150	Simplicity	1942
Box 28 , Folder 151	Simplicity	1942
Box 28 , Folder 152	Simplicity	1943
Box 29 , Folder 153	Simplicity	1943
Box 29 , Folder 154	Simplicity	1944
Box 29 , Folder 155	Simplicity	1944
Box 29 , Folder 156	Simplicity	1945
Box 29 , Folder 157	Simplicity	1946
Box 30 , Folder 158	Simplicity	1947
Box 30 , Folder 159	Simplicity	1948
Box 30 , Folder 160	Simplicity	1948
Box 30 , Folder 161	Simplicity	1949
Box 30 , Folder 162	Simplicity	1949
Box 30 , Folder 163	Simplicity	1950
Box 30 , Folder 164	Simplicity	1950
Box 31 , Folder 165	Simplicity	1951
Box 31 , Folder 166	Simplicity	1952
Box 31 , Folder 167	Simplicity	1953
Box 31 , Folder 168	Simplicity	1954
Box 31 , Folder 169	Simplicity	1954
Box 31 , Folder 170	Simplicity	1955
Box 32 , Folder 171	Simplicity	1955
Box 32 , Folder 172	Simplicity	1956
Box 32 , Folder 173	Simplicity	1956
Box 32 , Folder 174	Simplicity	1957
Box 32 , Folder 175	Simplicity	1958
Box 32 , Folder 176	Simplicity	1959
Box 33 , Folder 177	Standard Design	1892-1912
Box 33 , Folder 178	Standard Design	1913-1917
Box 33 , Folder 179	Standard Design	1918-1926
Box 33 , Folder 180	Universal Fashion Company	1883-1886, late 1880s
Box 33 , Folder 181	Vogue	1899-1907
Box 33 , Folder 182	Vogue	1913-1916, 1919
Box 33 , Folder 183	Vogue	1920-1925
Box 34 , Folder 184	Vogue	1926-1929
Box 34 , Folder 185	Vogue	1930-1932
Box 34 , Folder 186	Vogue	1933-1935
Box 34 , Folder 187	Vogue	1936-1937
Box 34 , Folder 188	Vogue	1938-1939
Box 34 , Folder 189	Vogue	1940-1941
Box 35 , Folder 190	Vogue	1942-1943
Box 35 , Folder 191	Vogue	1944-1945
Box 35 , Folder 192	Vogue	1946-1947
Box 35 , Folder 193	Vogue	1948
Box 35 , Folder 194	Vogue	1949
Box 35 , Folder 195	Vogue	1950
Box 35 , Folder 196	Vogue	1950-1951
Box 36 , Folder 197	Vogue	1951
Box 36 , Folder 198	Vogue	1952
Box 36 , Folder 199	Vogue	1953
Box 36 , Folder 200	Vogue	1954
Box 36 , Folder 201	Vogue	1955-1956
Box 36 , Folder 202	Vogue	1957
Box 36 , Folder 203	Vogue	1958-1959
Box 36 , Folder 204	Women's Home Companion with dating sheets	1906-1931
Box 37 , Folder 205	Weldon's	1936-1939
Box 37 , Folder 206	Women's World	1917
Box 37 , Folder 207	Women's World	1928-1935

Series 2. Women's Fashions
2 box(es)
(1 linear feet)

Contains articles, photocopies, clippings. The bulk contains a fashion chronology comprising pictorial representations of women's clothing fashions.

Arrangement: Arranged in alphabetical order by subject.

Container	Description	Date
Box 1 , Folder 1	The American delineator	1864
Box 1 , Folder 2	The American ladies memorial: Boston	1850
Box 1 , Folder 3	The American woman's home or principles of domestic science, excerpts	1870
Box 1 , Folder 4	Blouses and shirt-waists excerpt from The new dressmaker: Butterick	1921
Box 1 , Folder 5	Cornwell's Columbian sewing book: history of sewing, excerpt	1892
Box 1 , Folder 6	Diderot Garment excerpt (includes information on glove making and tailoring equipment) (in oversize)	undated
Box 1 , Folder 7	A Domestic cyclopaedia of practical information, excerpts	1877
Box 1 , Folder 8	Englishwoman's domestic magazine	1858
Box 1 , Folder 9	A Estacao jornal para familia, supplemento do	1884
Box 1 , Folder 10	Fashion catalogue	Fall and Winter 1912-1913
Box 1 , Folder 11	Fashion chronology	before 1800
Box 1 , Folder 12	Fashion chronology	1800-1870s
Box 1 , Folder 13	Fashion chronology	1855
Box 1 , Folder 14	Fashion chronology	1860s
Box 1 , Folder 15	Fashion chronology	1890s
Box 1 , Folder 16	Fashion chronology, Modele Costume Tailleur (In oversize)	1907-1909
Box 1 , Folder 17	Fashion chronology, Jupes Parisiennes	1908-1909
Box 1 , Folder 18	Fashion chronology, Le Grand Tailleur	1912
Box 1 , Folder 19	Fashion chronology	1913-1927
Box 1 , Folder 20	Fashion chronology	1900-1919
Box 2 , Folder 21	Fashion chronology, Store and Home, Winter Fashions, John Wanamaker, Philadelphia	1920-1923
Box 2 , Folder 22	Fashion chronology	1925
Box 2 , Folder 23	Fashion chronology	1926-1929
Box 2 , Folder 24	Fashion chronology	1930
Box 2 , Folder 25	Fashion chronology, Die modenwelt	1930 Nov, 1938 Oct
Box 2 , Folder 26	Fashion chronology	1940s
Box 2 , Folder 27	Godey's lady's book and magazine	1859
Box 2 , Folder 28	Journal des desmoiselles	1841
Box 2 , Folder 29	The Moulding method of practical dressmaking in Woman At Home	1908 May-Sep
Box 2 , Folder 30	McCall needlework and decorative arts (1934-fabric swatches description)	1930-1931,1934
Box 2 , Folder 31	Sweaters	1920s
Box 2 , Folder 32	Victor ladies tailoring co. fashion book	Spring and Summer 1918
Box 2 , Folder 33	Women's world: amateur dressmaking by Mary Billington	1890

Series 3. Men's Fashions
13 box(es)
(6.5 linear feet)

Contains articles, photocopies, clippings, and pictorial information pertaining to men's fashions and accessories.

Arrangement: Arranged in alphabetical order by subject.

Container	Description	Date
Box 1 , Folder 1	American tailor and cutter	1872
Box 1 , Folder 2	Aviation attire	1927-1928
Box 1 , Folder 3	"The Autobiography of a tailor" in The Sartorial Art Journal	1913 Sep
Box 1 , Folder 4	Bernard-Hewitt and Company: Fine tailoring, Chicago	1919
Box 1 , Folder 5	Mens's and boy's caps fabrics and trimmings	1935
Box 1 , Folder 6	Clothier and furnisher	1906-1907
Box 1 , Folder 7	Collars: Wm. Barker and Co.	1929
Box 1 , Folder 8	Cluett, Coon and Co.	1897-1899
Box 1 , Folder 9	Cluett, Coon and Co.	1894-1896
Box 1 , Folder 10	Cluett, Peabody and Co.	1900-1902
Box 1 , Folder 11	Cluett, Peabody and Co.	1903-1904
Box 1 , Folder 12	Cluett, Peabody and Co.	1905
Box 1 , Folder 13	Cluett, Peabody and Co.	1907
Box 1 , Folder 14	Cluett, Peabody and Co.	1908
Box 2 , Folder 15	Cluett, Peabody and Co.	1909
Box 2 , Folder 16	Cluett, Peabody and Co.	1910
Box 2 , Folder 17	Cluett, Peabody and Co.	1914,1916,1918
Box 2 , Folder 18	Cluett, Peabody and Co.	1920,1922
Box 2 , Folder 19	Cluett, Peabody and Co.	1922-1925
Box 2 , Folder 20	Cluett, Peabody and Co.	1923-1925
Box 2 , Folder 21	Cluett, Peabody and Co. and Geo. P. Ide and Co.	1926, 1928, 1929
Box 2 , Folder 21	Geo. P.Ide and Co.	1928
Box 3 , Folder 22	Coats and jackets	1890-1899
Box 3 , Folder 23	Collars: P. Ide Co. and Corliss Coon	1930-1932[?]
Box 3 , Folder 24	Collars	1890-1899
Box 3 , Folder 25	Collars and cuffs	1886
Box 3 , Folder 26	Collars and cuffs, manufacturers	1895
Box 3 , Folder 27	The complete bachelor: manners for men	1896
Box 3 , Folder 28	Cravats: The Art of tying the cravat	1828
Box 3 , Folder 29	Cutting: a practical treatise on cutting	1840
Box 3 , Folder 30	Cutting	1879, 1885
Box 3 , Folder 31	Drafting	1840s
Box 3 , Folder 32	Drafting	1860-1870
Box 3 , Folder 33	Fashion chronology	before 1790
Box 3 , Folder 34	Fashion chronology	1790s
Box 4 , Folder 35	Fashion chronology	1800-1820
Box 4 , Folder 36	Fashion chronology	1820s
Box 4 , Folder 37	Fashion chronology	1820-1830
Box 4 , Folder 38	Fashion chronology	1830s
Box 4 , Folder 39	Fashion chronology	1840s
Box 4 , Folder 40	Fashion chronology	1850s
Box 4 , Folder 41	Fashion chronology	1860s
Box 4 , Folder 42	Fashion chronology	1870s
Box 4 , Folder 43	Fashion chronology	1880-1881
Box 4 , Folder 44	Fashion chronology	1880-1885
Box 5 , Folder 45	Fashion chronology	1886-1889
Box 5 , Folder 46	Fashion chronology	1890-1895
Box 5 , Folder 47	Fashion chronology: The Sartorial Art Journal	1890-1898
Box 5 , Folder 48	Fashion chronology	1896-1899
Box 5 , Folder 49	Fashion chronology	1900-1904
Box 6 , Folder 50	Fashion chronology	1900-1905
Box 6 , Folder 51	Fashion chronology	1905
Box 6 , Folder 52	Fashion chronology	1906-1907
Box 6 , Folder 53	Fashion chronology	1906-1909
Box 6 , Folder 54	Fashion chronology	1908
Box 6 , Folder 55	Fashion chronology	1909
Box 7 , Folder 56	Fashion chronology	1910
Box 7 , Folder 57	Fashion chronology	1911
Box 7 , Folder 58	Fashion chronology	1910-1912
Box 7 , Folder 59	Fashion chronology	1912
Box 7 , Folder 60	Fashion chronology	1913
Box 8 , Folder 61	Fashion chronology	1914
Box 8 , Folder 62	Fashion chronology	1913-1915
Box 8 , Folder 63	Fashion chronology	1915
Box 8 , Folder 64	Fashion chronology	1916-1919
Box 8 , Folder 65	Fashion chronology	1920s
Box 8 , Folder 66	Fashion chronology	1927-1929
Box 8 , Folder 67	Fashion chronology	1930s
Box 8 , Folder 68	Fashion chronology	1930-1933
Box 8 , Folder 69	Fashion chronology	1930-1936
Box 9 , Folder 70	Fashion chronology	1931-1933
Box 9 , Folder 71	Fashion chronology	1934-1936
Box 9 , Folder 72	Fashion chronology	1937
Box 9 , Folder 73	Fashion chronology	1938
Box 9 , Folder 74	Fashion chronology: Men's Wear	1938
Box 9 , Folder 75	Fashion chronology	1939
Box 9 , Folder 76	Fashion chronology	1940s
Box 9 , Folder 77	Gentleman's Tailor	1909
Box 10 , Folder 78	Gentleman's Tailor	1910-1915
Box 10 , Folder 79	The Haberdasher	1900
Box 10 , Folder 80	Hearn's	1819
Box 10 , Folder 81	LaMode illustrated	1870-1871
Box 10 , Folder 82	LaMode illustrated	1872-1874
Box 10 , Folder 83	LaMode illustrated	1875-1877
Box 10 , Folder 84	LaMode illustrated	1875-1879
Box 10 , Folder 85	LaMode illustrated	1880
Box 10 , Folder 86	London fashion review	1903
Box 10 , Folder 87	Masquerade costumes	1905
Box 10 , Folder 88	Minister's gazette of fashion	1900,1901,1908
Box 10 , Folder 89	Montgomery Ward and Co.'s Catalogue No. 57	Spring, Summer 1895
Box 10 , Folder 90	Neckties: knitted and woven	1930s-1940s
Box 10 , Folder 91	Occupational clothing	1600s-1900s
Box 10 , Folder 92	Occupational clothing: Geo. Master Garment Corp.	1938
Box 10 , Folder 93	Ready made clothing: Sears, Roebuck Co.	Fall, Winter 1902-1903
Box 11 , Folder 94	Ready to wear: tailors' catalogs	1920s
Box 11 , Folder 94A	Selection of diagrams and figures drawn and designed by Mr. W.D.F. Vincent to illustrate a lecture entitled "Cutting for disproportionate figures" (in oversize)	1920
Box 11 , Folder 95	Shirts	before 1800
Box 11 , Folder 96	Shirts	1800s
Box 11 , Folder 97	Shirts	1800-1866
Box 11 , Folder 98	Shirts	1880s
Box 11 , Folder 99	Shirts	1890-1898
Box 11 , Folder 100	Shirts	1900s
Box 12 , Folder 101	Shirts	1909-1940
Box 12 , Folder 101A	Shirts: broadside of Carson Pirie Scott and Co. (in oversize)	undated
Box 12 , Folder 102	Shirts: photos and notes from New York Metropolitan Museum of Art	1800s
Box 12 , Folder 103	Shirts, collars, cuffs and handkerchiefs	1928?
Box 12 , Folder 104	Shoes	1880s
Box 12 , Folder 105	Sporting clothes	1928-1939
Box 12 , Folder 106	Sportswear	1902-1918
Box 12 , Folder 107	Suits: coats, vests, and breeches	1700s
Box 12 , Folder 108	Sweaters: needle-art	Fall 1925
Box 12 , Folder 109	Tailor and cutter fashions	1925
Box 12 , Folder 110	Tailoring	1888-1900
Box 12 , Folder 111	Tailoring	1900-1902
Box 12 , Folder 112	Tailoring	1903-1905
Box 13 , Folder 113	Tailoring	1906-1908
Box 13 , Folder 114	Tailoring	1909
Box 13 , Folder 115	Tailoring and ready-to-wear	1890-1896
Box 13 , Folder 116	Tailoring lessons	circa 1900
Box 13 , Folder 117	Tailor's trimmings catalog	1928-1929
Box 13 , Folder 118	The tailor’s hand-book of cutting	1856
Box 13 , Folder 119	Trousers	1890
Box 13 , Folder 120	Trousers	1900-1909
Box 13 , Folder 121	Trousers	1910-1919
Box 13 , Folder 122	Underwear	1928-1929
Box 13 , Folder 123	Weldon's home dressmaker: day and night wear	1932
Box 13 , Folder 124	Wells of Mayfair	1970s?
Box 13 , Folder 125	West end gazette	1888-1889
Box 13 , Folder 126	Vests	1890-1899

Series 4. Subject File
7 box(es)
(3.5 linear feet)

Contains clippings, notes, articles correspondence, and papers. Includes a variety of subject matter regarding accessories, children's fashions, sewing and tailoring, descriptive information on pattern companies

Arrangement: Arranged in alphabetical order by subject.

Container	Description	Date
Box 1 , Folder 1	American tailor and cutter	1890 Jan - Dec
Box 1 , Folder 2	Arthur's illustrated home magazine	1874
Box 1 , Folder 3	Bibliography and publications lists E - Q	1970
Box 1 , Folder 4	Bibliography - American periodicals A - D	undated
Box 1 , Folder 5	Bibliography - American periodicals E - M	undated
Box 2 , Folder 6	Bibliography - American periodicals Mc - Z	undated
Box 2 , Folder 7	Bibliography - American periodicals	undated
Box 2 , Folder 8	Bibliography - American periodicals - English	undated
Box 3 , Folder 9	Blacket, Basil: "Technical education amongst women" in The Dressmakers's chart and cutter	1889 Apr
Box 3 , Folder 10	Childrens clothing	1920s - 1930s
Box 3 , Folder 11	Cleaning fabrics, clippings	1920s
Box 3 , Folder 12	Clover Leaf Journal : Gage Brothers and Co.	Oct 1895
Box 3 , Folder 13	Cluett, Peabody Co. "History of Arrow Shirt Co." in Fortune	Feb 1973
Box 3 , Folder 14	Cunning's supplementary catalogue: M.J. Cunning Co.	undated
Box 3 , Folder 15	Dating patterns and organizations, notes re.	undated
Box 3 , Folder 16	Domestic Advisor re. collars, caps, frills: men's women's	1826
Box 3 , Folder 17	Dickson, Carol Ann: Patterns for garments: a history of the paper garment pattern industry in America to 1976	1979
Box 3 , Folder 18	Ehrich's fashion quarterly with notes re. dating material	1877, undated
Box 3 , Folder 19	Furs	1919, undated
Box 3 , Folder 20	Gale, Delight: Costume Designing (manuscript)	1937 - 1938
Box 3 , Folder 21	Gale, Delight: Drafting (manuscript)	1938
Box 3 , Folder 22	Hess, Erwin Antiques Fair clippings, re: fashions 1900 - 1920s	1964?
Box 3 , Folder 23	Jordan, Marsh, and Co. catalogue, Fall and Winter	1882 - 1883
Box 3 , Folder 24	Lays	1921 - 1924, undated
Box 3 , Folder 25	Letters	1982 - 1989
Box 3 , Folder 26	Measuring guides	1922, 1925
Box 3 , Folder 27	Merchant Tailor Designers Association 46th annual convention	1922 Jan, 1926
Box 3 , Folder 28	Midwest Hosiery Company - women, men and children	1934 - 1935
Box 4 , Folder 29	Pattern companies: descriptive information A: Advance, Andrew's Bazaar, Alden's, Art et la Mode	undated
Box 4 , Folder 30	Pattern companies: descriptive information B: Bonton, Barbara Bell, Betty Ann Pattern, Butterick, Banner	undated
Box 4 , Folder 31	Pattern companies: descriptive information C: Charm, Chicago Tribune, Clotilde, Country Gentlemen	undated
Box 4 , Folder 32	Pattern companies: descriptive information D: The Designer, Domestic, Demorest, Du Barry E: Economy, Ehrich, Elite, Excella	undated
Box 4 , Folder 33	Pattern companies: descriptive information F:Famous Features, Farmer's Wife, Fashionable Dress, Fashionist, Fashion Service, Fashion World	undated
Box 4 , Folder 34	Pattern companies: descriptive information G: Good Housekeeping H: Harper's Bazaar, Home Notes, Hollywood,Household Journal	undated
Box 4 , Folder 35	Pattern companies: descriptive information I:Ideal, Illustrated Companion	undated
Box 4 , Folder 36	Pattern companies: descriptive information J: Jane Alden, Jennis Miller, Les Jolies Modes, Jones L: Ladies Home Journal, Lady's Friend, The Ladies Treasury, Ladies World, Laura Wheeler, Leslie, Nos Loisirs, Louis Lang patterns	undated
Box 4 , Folder 37	Pattern companies: descriptive information M: Martha Dean, May Manton, May Fair, McCalls, La Mode Chic de Paris, Modele Parisien, Modern Priscilla, Modes Glove Fitting, La Mode Pratique, Modes Royal, Montgomery Ward	undated
Box 4 , Folder 38	Pattern companies: descriptive information M: Marien Martin	undated
Box 4 , Folder 39	Pattern companies: descriptive information N: National Bellas, Hess Company, Needlecraft, New Idea, New Picture Pattern, New York	undated
Box 4 , Folder 40	Pattern companies: descriptive information P: Paris Fashion, Paris Modes Company, Paris Pattern Company, Patterns by Yvonne, Patt-O-Rama, Peerless Photoplay, Pictorial Review, Popular Fashions	undated
Box 4 , Folder 41	Pattern companies: descriptive information R: Reader's Mail, Reliable Seam-Allowance Patterns, Ringwood's, Royal, Rose Mary Patterns	undated
Box 4 , Folder 42	Pattern companies: descriptive information S: El Salon de la Moda, Sears Roebuck, Sew-Rite, Silver Screen, Simplicity	undated
Box 4 , Folder 43	Pattern companies: descriptive information Simplicity Pattern Co. Inc.	undated
Box 5 , Folder 44	Pattern companies: descriptive information S: Smith, Spader, Standard Design, Style, Style-Arts, Superior	undated
Box 5 , Folder 45	Pattern companies: descriptive information T: Town and Country, U: Universal, V: Vanity Fair, Vogue	undated
Box 5 , Folder 46	Pattern companies: descriptive information W: Woman's Home Companion, Woman's Institute, Woman's Magazine, Woman's Weekly, Woman's World	undated
Box 5 , Folder 47	Pattern companies: descriptive information Y: Young Ladies Journal, Library of Congress Pattern Catalog, misc.	undated
Box 5 , Folder 48	Pictorial Review: list of patterns found in	1899 - 1939
Box 5 , Folder 49	Quinn, Janet H. Sewing note book manuscript	undated
Box 5 , Folder 50	Schmidt, Victoria: How to custom fit your pattern	1953
Box 6 , Folder 51	Seligman, Kevin, Letters to	1991 Jan - 1995 Aug
Box 6 , Folder 52	Seligman, Kevin, Letters to	1984 Apr -1989 May
Box 6 , Folder 53	Seligman, Kevin, Letters to	1989 Aug - 1991 Jan
Box 6 , Folder 54	Sewing tips, projects, misc. publications	1972, 1976, undated
Box 6 , Folder 55	Shirt, history of	undated
Box 6 , Folder 56	Sports wear: men's and women's	1936 - 1939, undated
Box 7 , Folder 57	Stitchery and knitting: womens magazine	1914, 1916
Box 7 , Folder 58	Tailoring information and notes	1889, 1926, undated
Box 7 , Folder 59	Terms, definition of: various sources	1858 - 1920
Box 7 , Folder 60	Terms, technical used in tailoring, The American tailor and cutter by S.S. Rathvon	1899
Box 7 , Folder 61	Tailoring, ladies history re. in The Cutter's practical guide to ladies' tailoring	1920
Box 7 , Folder 62	Tailoring: The improved tailor's aera: London, 2nd Edition by John Jackson	1831
Box 7 , Folder 63	Tailoring manual	1796
Box 7 , Folder 64	Tinting, dyeing and practical art craft	1926
Box 7 , Folder 65	Walsh, Margaret: "The Democratization of fashion: the emergence of the women's dress pattern industry" in Journal of American history, vol.66 no.2	Sep 1979
Box 7 , Folder 66	Williams, Betty: On the dating of tissue paper patterns	n,d.
Box 7 , Folder 67	Wright's bias folding tape and trimmings, sewing book no.22	1930
Box 7 , Folder 68	Womens Wear Daily	May 5, 1950
Box 7 , Folder 69	Zippers, history of, miscellaneous	1940s?,1991

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