Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Image of a fashion plate featuring a dress with a woman standing in profile and a smaller rear view of the same dress; fashion details include a deep ruffled hem, long A-line skirt, tailored bodice, puffed shoulder, ruffled sleeves, high lace collar, accessories include gloves, pointed-toe shoes, and flowered hat with lace.
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Visual Materials
Image of a woman carrying a parasol/umbrella and wearing a floral hat and an elaborate dress with jacket bodice, overskirt with lace and bow detail, and long gathered skirt with bustle, ruffled hem and floral detailing; smaller image above of Atlas carrying the globe on his shoulders.
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Image of an outdoor lake vignette advertising Butterick fashions for men and women; fashion details include bustled skirt with split and gathered overskirt and ruffled hem, fitted bodice with wide sleeves and lace undersleeves, men's jackets, coats, waistcoats, ties, suits, and trousers; accessories include bowler and top hats, canes, feathered hat, parasol, and gloves; reference key for figures numbered 1-6 in bottom margin.
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Image of two women outdoors featuring current dress fashions; fashion details include long full bustled skirts with tiered ruffled hems, gathers, and overskirts, fitted bodices with slim sleeves and ruffled undersleeves; accessories include gloves, parasol, and straw hat trimmed with flowers, ribbon and feathers.
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Image of two vignettes featuring men, women, and children outdoors; fashion details include women's evening dress with two skirts, pointed bodice with tassel trim and open neckline, cloaks, frock coats, and tail coats worn with waistcoats, cravats, and slim trousers for men and boys; riding habit with jacket bodice, boy's hunting/sporting attire with rifle, and ethnic costume also pictured; accessories include top hats, canes, muff, fan, floral headdress, and feathered women's hats; reference key for figures numbered 1-21 in margin.
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Visual Materials
The Jay T. Last collection of fashion prints and ephemera contains approximately 7,500 items dating from the 1570s to the early 1900s, with the bulk of the items spanning from 1825 to 1900. This collection consists of fashion plates, advertising prints, broadsides, and promotional ephemera produced for clothiers and tailors, dry goods suppliers, garment manufacturers, fashion publications, and textile companies affiliated with the design, production, and/or sale of clothing, accessories, and dry goods. While most of the materials are American, there are also notable quantities of foreign items in the collection, including French fashion plates, fez labels in several languages, and foreign textile labels. Labels affixed to textile samples of various sizes are also included. Materials are broadly divided into two series: small-size items (11 x 14 inches or smaller) and large-size items (typically larger than 11 x 14 inches). Small-size items are described broadly at the series level; large-size items and select small-size items are fully inventoried with printers, artists, and publishers indexed by name. The collection includes 250 large-size items comprised mainly of lithographic advertising prints and fashion plates. Small-size items number approximately 7,250 and contain a variety of promotional materials including trade cards, calendars, booklets, product labels, fashion plates, periodicals, clippings, and printed billheads and letterheads with manuscript text. Each series is divided into subseries according to the kind of business, service, or trade sponsoring the advertisement. Types of businesses have been identified according to the principal type of product(s) manufactured or sold by the business. These subseries are arranged as follows: Accessories; Clothiers, Tailors, and Dry Goods; Fashion Plates And Periodicals; Footwear; Garments; Headwear; Sewing Supplies; and Textiles. This collection contains many American and European printed illustrations, commonly known as "fashion plates," that typically depict men, women, or children modeling current clothing and dress styles. Small plates (usually 14 x 10 inches or less in this collection) illustrated the pages of magazines and bound volumes that were marketed specifically for women. Larger plates, primarily intended for display, advertised the products and services of fashion designers, tailors, and pattern makers. The collection provides a resource for studying clothing and dress, sales and merchandise, textiles, and sewing, as well as changing fashion trends in the United States and Europe in the 19th century. The images are primarily promotional in nature and provide information about the history of the American fashion, clothing, dry-goods, and textile industries and the evolution of their advertising strategies in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As graphic materials, the prints offer evidence of developing techniques and trends in printmaking, and of the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.
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