Image Research: Costume Design 

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• Customs and Costume: Surveys and Examples of National Studies to 1900  
  An assemblage of about two dozen (and growing) various and representative plate books, portfolios of paintings and prints, and illustrated surveys on costume and customs of people around the world, principally in the 19th century.
• Dress and Fashion: Design and Manufacture  
  Several rare and unusual published resources of interest to students of western dress and fashion from the 19th to the early 20th century. Includes historical surveys as well as manufacturers' booklets and sample swatch catalogs.
• Marquees, 1997-2001: New York City Theatre Photographs by Christopher Frith  
  1,717 color photographs of Broadway theater marquees and theater facades from 1997 to 2001 by Christopher J. Frith.
• On Stage and Screen: Photograph File of the Billy Rose Theatre Collection  
  Tens of thousands of photographs of actors and actresses, in character and as themselves, from the 19th century to recent years.
• "Penny Plains" and "Two-pence Coloured:" English Theatrical Portraits 1799-1847 in the William Appleton Collection  
  306 toy theatre prints portraying plays and actors in character, from the early- to mid-19th century; these prints comprise the visual materials in the William Appleton collection of theatrical correspondence and ephemera, 1697-1930.
• "Queen of Off-Broadway:" Lucille Lortel Collection Photographs 1902-1998  
  An appreciative selected collection of eighteen memorabilia photographs from the papers of Lucille Lortel (1900-1999), the woman regarded as the founder of Off-Broadway, the second wave of little theatre in America.
• Theatre Productions and Players, 1900-1957: Vandamm Studio Photographs  
  The thousands of items in this digital presentation are a sampling of an archive of more than 75,000 images of theatrical personalities and productions. Images in the current presentation represent glass plate and acetate negatives primarily.
• Uniforms and Regimental Regalia: The Vinkhuijzen Collection of Military Costume Illustration  
  Over 20,000 prints, drawings, watercolors, and printed book and magazine illustrations of military costume as well as military medals, regalia, insignia, coats of arms, and regimental flags, from most times and places except the United States.
• Yiddish Theatre Placards: Buenos Aires and New York  
  Placards from the two leading centers of Yiddish theater in their respective heydays: New York, 1890s-1910s (64 images), and Buenos Aires, 1930s-1940s (28 images).

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