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Today’s pairing of book with an item on display in “From Book to Movie” Exhibit is: Robin Hood (1917) by Paul Creswick & illustrated by N. C. Wyeth (Lois Lenski Collection)

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2022-08-19

Today’s pairing of book with item in “From Book to Movie” Exhibit is: The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales from the Old French, retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, illust. by Dulac (1927) https://t.co/7iPzCiJjbP

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2022-08-17

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Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and His Friends (1936) held in Lois Lenski Collection in Nichols https://t.co/tK7nyCHGm3

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2021-11-19

Andorian-colored Wound Man from 1533 edition of Physica by Hildegard of Bingen ⚔️Art by Robert, one of our new Student Library Assistants in the https://t.co/I2jzj2LIvb

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2021-11-01

from Aldrovandi's 1640 book about & by Tasia, one of our new Student Library Assistants in the

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2021-10-29

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For from Bass Business, Bizzell Bible, & Nichols Pictorial History of the American Circus (1957), Biblia sacra (1710), History of Four-footed Beasts (1658) and Babar the King (1935)

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2021-08-13

Here’s a binding that made me go 😍😍😍 this morning on v. 1 of our Aldine “Opera Graece”, 1495-1498, RBR Q151 .A685 1495 folio

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2019-04-06

A stunning design by Madeleine Vionnet which was licensed by the American ready-to-wear manufacturer A. Beller & Co, c. 1928.

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2019-03-02

This Poiret promotion underscores how he was creating styles reflecting the popular s-bend silhouette, a trend he would later claim to hate. From Costumes, for Paul Poiret's summer 1906 collection.

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2019-02-17

Incredible sketch drawn for a designed by Seymour Moss, whose company MOBA created gold & gemstone “fashion jewelry."

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2019-02-02

A rare 1837 fashion plate of a woman in a sporting ensemble featuring pants. It would be another 15 yrs before Bloomers emerged. Journal des dames et des modes, 1837.

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2018-12-19

Day 11
A & Sami family, from a 1674 English translation of 'The history of Lapland', by Swedish humanist Johannes Schefferus. Did you know the Sami are the northernmost indigenous people of Europe?

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2018-12-11

We have a new blog post up on Material Mode about Youssef Rizkallah. His name will ring a bell w/ few, yet we house a formidable collection of sketches from his time designing high-end ready to wear on NYC’s 7th Ave. Learn more: https://t.co/tU1sVILVXG

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2018-11-11

Simple but stunning design suggestion by Florence Schatken for the subscription Cardinal Fashion Studios, 1946.

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2018-10-15

This is an original sketch for A. Beller & Co., who licensed the design from Erté. This “wrap of satin, cape cut low to show lining, sleeves embroidered in gold & laced with gold cord” was trimmed w/ fox fur.

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2018-10-12

Simple but stunning design suggestion by Florence Schatken for the subscription Cardinal Fashion Studios, 1946.

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2018-10-05