fashion

Wells Corset Shop (Style show) - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Pho... More

[...] MacDonald sets "neighbors," The White House hostess? of No. 10 D...

A group of children and adults posing for a picture in front of the white house. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

At party to Chinese Minister of Finance. Washington D.C. July 1. Dr. R...

A man in a white suit and a man in a black and white photo. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton stockings. Paulette Goddard illustrates the new fashion trend o...

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Detroit, Michigan. Corset department at the Crowley-Milner department ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Franklin Simon Co., business on Connecticut Ave., Washington, D.C. Cor...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lord & Taylor, business in Washington, D.C. Corsets

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Phebe - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5168

A New Years [sic] dream - Public domain theatrical script

Picryl description: Public domain copy of a script, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Fashion model underwater in dolphin tank, Marineland, Florida]

Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress). Similar image published in Vogue, October 1939. Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 651, box 85

Peytona and Fashion: in their great match for $20,000. over the Union ...

Artist: Charles Severin (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5164 Exchange; F.A. Conningham; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:025).

Following the fashion / Js. Gy. desn. et fect., British Cartoon Print

Two women, one tall and pretty and slim, the other short and fat, wear burlesqued versions of the new fashions. Under each is a supplementary title: (left) St. James's giving the Ton, a soul without a body; (ri... More

Nautch girl dancing with musicians accomp. Calcutta, India - Frank G. ...

Photo shows a female dancer standing between two musicians, one with drums and the other with a stringed instrument. Title from caption card and item. No. 216. LOT subdivision subject: India. Forms part of: Fra... More

Sidney R. Ellis presents golden voiced singer, Al. H. Wilson in his ne...

Caption: How you vos. Created and "copyright 1906 by The U.S. Lithograph Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 9977. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Foolish fashion / Hy Mayer ; drawn by Hy Mayer.

Illustration shows women wearing outlandish hats and dresses, and in some cases not being sure they are wearing them correctly. Illus. in: Puck, v. 75, no. 1939 (1914 May 2), centerfold (p. 10-11). Copyright 1... More

The bridal outfit, a noteworthy display at the fashion show

Photograph shows woman in bridal gown posing with attendants. Copyright 1921 by J. M. Gidding from Underwood & Underwood, New York. Additional title on item: J. H. Gidding's bridal outfit, with attendants, made... More

Fashion show presented by the Chrysler Girls' Club of the Chrysler Cor...

Public domain photograph - female portrait, the 1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. Fashion show presented by the Chrysler Girls' Club ...

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[Woman wearing tennis outfit, seated on wall, with one leg on top of w...

Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Toni Frissell: Photographs, 1933-1967. New York, New York : Doubleday, 1994, p. 22. Published in: Harpers Bazaar. [New York : Hearst Corp., etc.] (1... More

Leader's, business in Lima, Ohio. Corset department

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic place interior, salon, hall lobby, living room, 18th-19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Back view of fashion models in swim suits, two kneeling wearing swim ...

Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress). Published in Harper's bazaar, January 1950. Original negative: LC-F9-01-4911-019-05. Image published in: Toni Frissell: Photographs, 1933-1967. New York, New Yor... More

Burdine's department store, business in Miami Beach, Florida. Corset a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Celebrities cloned at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum inside the Venetian ...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Adele Douglas, widow of Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas, in mourni...

Notation on verso: "Mrs. S.A. Douglass; Adele Cutts Douglas." Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Librar... More

Toronto Chief, General Butler, and Dexter: in their great race under S...

Artist: John Cameron (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6580

[Fashion model underwater in dolphin tank, Marineland, Florida]

Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress). Similar image published in Vogue, October 1939. Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 651, box 85

Height of fashion / painted by Mrs. L.M. Spencer ; lith. by LaFosse.

Print shows an African American girl playing adult (holding toy lorgnon to her eye), with dog in her lap. Exhibited: "Angels & Tomboys : Girlhood in 19th Century American Art" at the Newark Museum, Newark, New... More

[Unidentified young women in dresses in front of American flag]

Case: Berg, no. 7-22. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Purchased from: Home Sweet Homes Antiques, Anacortes, Washington, 2005. Exhibited: "The L... More

Bath stays or The lady's steel shapes, British Cartoon Print

"The interior of a blacksmith's smithy. On the anvil is a portion of a pair of stays, at which two smiths strike with hammers, one (left) holding the stays by pincers..." (Source: George) Catalogue of Politica... More

Dexter, Ethan Allen and mate: In their wonderful race, over the fashio...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a horse carriage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Woman wearing corset, brushing her hair, half-length portrait, standi...

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Paris Fashion - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Ella Fitzgerald Collection

Keeping up with the Joneses. [Men's styles] /

A domestic comedy about the McGinis family--husband Aloysius, wife Clarice, daughter Julie, and housemaid Belladonna. The simple story lines often parody society's concern with material goods as an indicator of... More

Helen Buck, Selig L. Heilner and wife

Photograph shows Seligman L. Heilner, president of the Princess Corset Company, with his wife, Julia and her companion Helen Buck. In April 1915, Julia was murdered by Joseph Hanel, the family's butler. (Source... More

Nautch girls, India, George Grantham Bain Collection

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Almas Temple Fashion Review Beauties, 11/11/24

A black and white photo of a group of people. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Models, Wash. fashion show, 5/7/24

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Detroit, Michigan. Fashion show presented by the Chrysler Girls' Club ...

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[Fashion model following women down a street in Peru]

Possibly part of a fashion assignment in Peru for Harper's Bazaar, but not published. See other 1952 Peru photos by Frissell. Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress). Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 651; formerl... More

Lord & Taylor, business in Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. Negligee and cor...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lord & Taylor, business in Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. Fashion linen co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

My brother - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4648

Mary Lincoln in mourning attire Joseph Ward, 125 Washington Street, Bo...

Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Purchased from: Margaret M. and Cary J. Delery, The Historical Shop, Metairie, Louisiana, 2016. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collectio... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with unidentified woman in dres...

Photograph shows woman's face scratched out. Case: Leather cross and scroll. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). pp/liljwoch pp/liljunion

I really must be in the fashion, comic song, by Van Der Weyde / lith. ...

Sheet music cover showing girl standing in front of mirror. No. Op. 123.

Peytona and Fashion: in their great match for $20,000. over the Union ...

Artist: Charles Severin (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5164 Exchange; F.A. Conningham; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:025).

[Two unidentified young women wearing printed dresses and necklaces in...

Case: Rinhart, no. 141. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Published in: The Civil War remembered. Virg... More

M. Edwin Sefton - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of a man in a suit and hat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

COTTON FASHION SHOW - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Foolish fashion / Hy Mayer ; by Hy Mayer.

Illustration shows a vignette cartoon depicting the latest in women's fashions, such as a pagoda-style dress and furs to match the shaved poodle, also with recommendations "Monkey furs should be worn with disce... More

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This is one of the huge machine shop...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Two women in evening gowns posed in front of water at sunset

Possibly in Puerto Rico. Forms part of: Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress)

[Fashion model Dovima wearing bikini, lying on platform near water, Mo...

Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress). Similar image published in: Harper's bazaar, May 1947. Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 651. Original negative no. F1214-11.

[Fashion model on edge of boat, man rowing, Montego Bay, Jamaica]

Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Harper's bazaar, November 1946. Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 651. Original negative number no. F1193-1.

[Woman seated in chair while another woman models a dress]

Image from Look photographic assignment with title: Chicago city of contrasts. Frame 20 of a contact sheet. Forms part of: LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Lord & Taylor, business in Millburn, New Jersey. Corset department

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a 19th-century corset, fash...

Public domain image with Picryl description as title Public domain photograph - historical image of Connecticut, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lord & Taylor, business in West Hartford, Connecticut. Corsets and lin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Celebrities cloned at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum inside the Venetian ...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

House all dressed up for a southern wedding, Mobile, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

James - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3394

Robert Burns and his highland Mary

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5616

Blaney's extravaganza success, A female drummer

"Russell-Morgan Print." Blaney and Vance, managers. Caption: Bargain day sale of corsets. Created and "copyrighted 1898 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cin., U.S.A." No. 3526. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collect... More

How d'y do?. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph for book illustration shows two women, in mid-19th century period costumes, standing in a doorway greeting each other. Published title. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjam... More

[Pauline Cushman, full-length portrait, standing, facing left]

From Brady negative. Public domain photograph of female portrait, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

William H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee

Caption: Billy Van, the monologue comedian. Created and "copyright 1900 by The Strobridge Litho Co, Cin'ti & New York." N.Y. no. 9019. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Library of Congress)

Female curiosity - Public domain engraving

Cartoon showing a woman in her bedchamber with her maidservant; the woman, with her nightdress hiked up above her waist, braces herself against the bed with one knee while adjusting an enormous wig over her bar... More

Bath Suit Fashion Parade, Seal Beach, Cal., July 14, 1918

J231781 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; M. F. Weaver; October 25, 1918. Copyright claimant's address: 1196 W. 38 St., L[os] A[ngeles], Cal. No. 777.

[Front view of Martha Ewing (right) and friend, three-quarter length p...

Two images, front view on one side and back view on the other side. Photograph by Bushnell Studio. (Source: researcher M. Davidson, 2015) Forms part of: George W. Harris collection. Accession box no. PR 13 CN ... More

The cruelties of fashion - "fine feathers make fine birds" / Hyde.

Illustration shows progression of bird's fate from hunted prey to decoration on a woman's hat. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. LVII, no. 1,468 (1883 November 10), p. 184.

The celebrated trotting Stallions "Young Woful" and "Abdallah Chief": ...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1032.

American Girl and Lady Thorn: in their great match for $2000 mile heat...

Public domain image of horse carriage, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mother Sexton - Early photography, Public domain image

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, full-length, Lydia Sexton, facing forward, standing next to a raised urn with her left hand resting on stone pedestal, wearing a bonnet and... More

Frances Benjamin Johnston - Fashion gleanings from abroad

Dresses, hats, jackets, and other fashions for women and children. Illus in: Demorest's family magazine, December, 1889, p. 124. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress)

[Advertisements from "Godey's lady's book and magazine" for bicycles, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image, 19th-century cigarette card, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Cigarette cards are trading cards issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette packaging and... More

Nature versus corsets, illustrated

Two pictures of a woman's torso; one showing a woman without a corset, the other showing the effects on the internal organs and bones when wearing a corset. Illus. in: Golden thoughts on chastity and procreatio... More

LABOR UNIONS. CORSET BUYERS ASSN. DELEGATION AT WHITE HOUSE

A group of people standing on the steps of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

COTTON FASHION SHOW - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain print related to the history of fashion, costume, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. B.J. Rogan and a fellow worker en...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York, New York. Art department of the New York Times newspaper. Ph...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Girl and sales lady examining a dress at Saks Fifth...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York, New York. Corset display at R. H. Macy and department store ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Fashion model on edge of boat, man rowing, Montego Bay, Jamaica]

Title devised by Library staff based on information for print in PR 06 CN 651. Original negative not seen by cataloger, because negative identified as nitrate. Exact dimensions of negative were not known. Simi... More

Munsingwear, 261 Madison Ave., New York City. Fashion coordinator

Picryl description: Public domain image of an office, table, bureau, desk, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

1920s-vintage advertising flier for the Bassett's Ice Cream stand in t...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of vintage Pennsylvania postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Blaney's latest musical comedy, A female drummer

Caption: Oh!! This old boy is easy. Created and "copyrighted 1898 by The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." No. 6309. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

The boss, theatrical script - Script by Aaron Hoffman

Following the fashion / Js. Gy. desn. et fect., British Cartoon Print

Two women, one tall and pretty and slim, the other short and fat, wear burlesqued versions of the new fashions. Under each is a supplementary title: (left) St. James's giving the Ton, a soul without a body; (ri... More

Damme Turque á Damas / Dumas Ph.

Turkish woman, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, in Damascus. Public domain photograph - 19th-century studio portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get al...

A black and white photo of two women on stage. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

EDDY, SPENCER. HONORABLE - Harris & Ewing, Studio Portrait

A black and white photo of a man in a top hat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sweely, Shipman & Co. present Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall by the aut...

Caption: Dorothy Vernon. Created and "copyright 1906 by The U.S. Lithograph Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 9744. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Woman carrying corset covers made on Macdougal St. to factory, 171 Woo...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2848. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Wells Corset Shop, [Washington, D.C.], interior

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bright uniforms of the Roumanian officers add to the color of Sinaia's...

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Public domain photograph related to the history of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Models, Wash. fashion show, [5/7/24]

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Girls and boys dressed in costumes]

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Fashion photographs. Woman with half-veil I

Public domain photograph of midcentury American advertising, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lord & Taylor, business in Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. Fashion linen an...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.