About Digital Collections
Browse
Search only public domain materials
Search Browse About
Search only public domain materials
Items Collections Divisions
Digital Collections Using Images Using Data
Items American fashion plates

American fashion plates

More Details Cite This Item

Library division & collection with this item:

LIBRARY DIVISION
Jerome Robbins Dance Division

  • Choregraphie
  • A long minuet as danced at Bath
  • Sketchbook
  • Sarah Bernhardt's farewell American tour
  • Scrapbook documenting the appearances of dancer Alice Eis and her partner Bert French
  • The dance score
  • Traité élémentaire, théorique et pratique de l'art de la danse
  • Sketchbook
  • Coreografie per ballabili d'opera
  • Caricature of Sergeĭ Dyagilev
  • La sténochorégraphie
  • Ehon Tsūhōshi
  • Le maître a danser
  • America
  • Costume designs for the ballet La Pastorella Svizzera
Previous Next

COLLECTION
Prints depicting dance

View as book

SUB-COLLECTION
Theatrical dancers, singly or in pairs

View as book

This Item

View this item elsewhere:

Title
American fashion plates
Collection

Prints depicting dance

Theatrical dancers, singly or in pairs

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1880 - 1899 (Approximate)
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZFX Fas 1-8
Topics
Clothing and dress -- United States -- 19th century
fashion plates
Women's clothing
Genres
Prints
Fashion plates
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Acquisition: Gift; Lincoln Kirstein.
Physical Description
Extent: 6 prints (5 sheets) : lithograph, color ; 41 x 29 cm. or smaller.
Extent: 3 photomechanical prints (2 sheets) : gravure, color ; 40 x 29 cm. or smaller.
Extent: 1 print : wood engraving, hand-colored ; 38 x 29 cm.
Description
Women's fashions of the 1880s and 1890s, as seen in fashion plates issued by New York based publishers. All except one print depict single figures, sometimes with details. Five prints (on three sheets) captioned L'art de la mode, nos. 741, 838, 841, 1098, 1101, were published by the Morse-Broughton Co. Three prints were published by Toilettes Publishing Company, two in November 1895, and one in March 1896. A print of a bridal gown, captioned The French Dressmakers, was published by MacDowell and Co. and is signed by Marie Perinal [?]. Two adult women and a young girl are shown in a reproduction of a print signed by Oswald Levens [?] in 1888, and captioned La mode de Paris, published by A. McDowell and Co.
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 825551024
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b19759736
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 72fce980-ed3c-0133-2131-00505686a51c
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

Item timeline of events

  • 1880: Issued (Approximate)
  • 2019: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "American fashion plates" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1880 - 1899. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/90dab250-f05a-0133-1f05-00505686a51c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "American fashion plates" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/90dab250-f05a-0133-1f05-00505686a51c

APA Format

Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. (1880 - 1899). American fashion plates Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/90dab250-f05a-0133-1f05-00505686a51c

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/90dab250-f05a-0133-1f05-00505686a51c | title= (still image) American fashion plates, (1880 - 1899) |author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=April 16, 2024 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

American fashion plates