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Historic Costume Across Time: Home

Resources that cover more than one century

Subject searching & Keyword searching

Search OBIS with these subject headings or combine them in a keyword search. For visual reference titles add the subheading Pictorial works

More about keyword searching

Broad subjects:

Clothing and dress

Costume

Dressmaking

Fashion

Women's clothing

Narrower terms:

Fans

Fashion accessories - use Dress accessories

Handkerchiefs

Jewelry

Military uniforms

Pattern design

Uniforms

Veils

Wedding costume

Wigs

Subdivisions: 

Jewelry under ethnic groups

Clothing under names of individual persons and under classes of persons and ethnic groups

Librarian / Research Help

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Barb Prior (she/her)  Head, Clarence Ward Art Library
Top Floor, Venturi Art Building
440-775-8635
Email us at art.library@oberlin.edu

Supports classes across the College and Conservatory and those using the Allen Memorial Art Museum

Subject expert for: 
Art & architecture of East Asia, Africa, Latin America, Islam, the Ancient Mediterranean, the Western Middle Ages, the Renaissance & Baroque periods, and Global Art of the 20th c & 21st c.
Complete list of Barb's Research Guides

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