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Ball costumes and coiffures

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Image ID

802641


Item data

Title

Ball costumes and coiffures

Collection

Wallach Division Picture Collection
Costume -- 1850s -- American

Names

Lossing & Barritt (Engraver)

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1852

Library Location

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC COSTU-185-Am

Subjects

Women -- Clothing & dress -- United States -- 1850-1859
Clothing & dress -- United States -- 1850-1859

Genres

Prints

Notes

Content: Printed on border: "Ball dress." "Coiffure à la jolie femme." Written on border: "June 1852." Includes two columns of text.
Source Note: Harper''s magazine. (New York : Harper Brothers, 1850-).

Physical Description

Extent: 1 print : b ; 20 x 13 cm. (8 x 5 in.)

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17122151
Barcode: 33333159223722
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 25d427d0-c542-012f-525a-58d385a7bc34

Rights

The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1852

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Ball costumes and coiffures" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1852. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/25d427d0-c542-012f-525a-58d385a7bc34

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1852). Ball costumes and coiffures Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/25d427d0-c542-012f-525a-58d385a7bc34

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Ball costumes and coiffures" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 17, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/25d427d0-c542-012f-525a-58d385a7bc34

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