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Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion: The United States and CanadaFind cultural groups, types of clothing, and articles about social influences on dress listed in the Table of Contents.
- Berg Fashion Library This link opens in a new windowIncludes Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, Berg fashion eBooks, color images from noted costume collections, and fashion reference material.
- Types of DressBloomsbury Fashion Central links to clothing types, and browsing for resources by time period.
Historic Dress Collection
Within ArtStor, the Smith College Collections include a sub-set of images of the thousands of objects in the full archive. Clothing and accessories of women in the United States date from 1800 to the present and from a range of social classes.
Try the Sears Catalogs
- Historic Catalogs of Sears, Roebuck and Co., 1896-1993. Material culture
- Discover AdvancedAfter signing in with your Smith credentials, type in your search terms and limit your results to books by selecting the Five Colleges Catalog Only box on the left hand side.
Connect to Ancestry and choose a year, or find books that feature an era or type of clothing.
Titles include:
- Children's Fashions
- Everyday fashions of the -Thirties * Forties * Fifties *Sixties
Special Resource: Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalogs
- Ancestry (Library Edition) This link opens in a new windowHistoric Catalogs of Sears, Roebuck and Co., 1896-1993.
To connect to the Sears catalogs:
- click on "Search" in the top menu bar,
- select "Card Catalog" from the dropdown menu
- type sears roebuck into search by title box
- click the enter button.
- SC Annex 658 Se17
Print copies of Sears Roebuck catalogs.
Library has 1928-1967, 1978 (with many gaps). Issued twice a year.
- Check the Discover Advanced Search for "Everyday Fashions as Pictured in Sears Catalogs" series covering 1900s to the 1960s.
Track Down Articles
- Journal Locator / Publication Finder Search for a publication title, or use options such as ISSN
Search for a publication by title, or use options such as ISSN.