[Shop floor display of lingerie at The Fair department store, ca. 1930 : cellulose acetate photonegative, banquet camera format]
Photographers:
Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
Subject:
Fair (Firm)
Physical description:
Silver gelatin on cellulose acetate film sheet
1 item, [12" x 20"]
Culture:
African Americans Washington (D.C.)
Type:
Photographs
Banquet camera photographs
Panoramas
Place:
Washington (D.C.)
Date:
1930
1940
[ca. 1930]
1930-1950
1930-1940
Topic:
Department stores
Clothing and dress
African Americans
Local number:
Box TBN4
AC0618.004.0001267.tif (scan number)
No Scurlock number
Notes:
The Fair department store was located at 820 7th St. N.W. Washington, D.C
Summary:
Shop floor at Fair department store. Displays of women's lingerie, jewellery and bags. Number of signs with prices displayed throughout the shop floor, also large signs reading, "Large Women's Wear Departments Latest Styles, Special Values. 2 - floor", "Bargain Basement Shoe Dept. in Basement", "Beautiful Styles Children's Wear. Baby Wear 2 - floor", "Men's Furnishings Get Them Here" and "This is Everybody's Store Visit our large upstairs". Ink on negative: "Fair Dept. store" and "B". No edge imprint
Cite as:
Scurlock Studio Records, ca. 1905-1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
St. Louis Art Museum Forest Park St. Louis Missouri 63110 Accession Number: 310:16
Date:
1915
Topic:
Figure female--Full length
Occupation--Domestic--Sewing
Architecture interior--Domestic--Bedroom
Control number:
IAP 28110037
Notes:
"Frederick Carl Frieseke: the evolution of an American Impressionist," Savannah, GA: Telfair Museum of Art (Princeton University Press), 2001, fig. 4.2
"Frederick Frieseke 1874-1939: a retrospective exhibition," Savannah, GA: Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1974, no. 11
"City Art Museum Catalogue of Paintings," St. Louis: City Art Museum, St. Louis, 1924
St. Louis Art Museum, 1988
"The St. Louis Art Museum Handbook of the Collections," St. Louis, MO: St. Louis Art Museum, 1991, pg. 175
Summary:
Interior setting with seated woman sewing
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
[Woman wearing a corset and looking in a full-length mirror, advertisement for Potter's Double Store. [Photolithographic trade card, copy of a painting.]
Advertiser:
R & G Corset Co
Potter's Double Store
Lithographer:
H.A. Thomas & Wylie, Lith. Co., N.Y
Physical description:
Ink on carboard
1 item, 16 x 10.5 cm (6-1/4"x 4-1/8")
Type:
Photolithographs
Lithographs
Date:
1880
Topic:
Mirrors
Lingerie
Corsets
Local number:
AC0060-0000444.tif (AC Scan)
Notes:
In Box 3, Folder 27
Summary:
The Potter store credit is stamped at the bottom of the card
Cite as:
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Patrons de broderie et de lingerie du XVIe siècle / reproduits par le procédé Lefman et Lourdel et publiés d'après les éditions conservées à la Bibliothèque Mazarine par Hippolyte Cocheris
Author:
Cocheris, Hippolyte 1829-1882
Bibliothèque Mazarine
Physical description:
20 p., [134] p. of plates : ill. ; 20 cm
Type:
Patterns
Date:
1872
Topic:
Lace and lace making
Embroidery
Call number:
NK9105 .C66 1872
Notes:
Spine title: Patrons de broderies
Cover title: Patrons de broderies dentelles & guipures du XVIe siècle
At head of title: Recueil de documents graphiques pour servir a l'histoire des arts industriels
"Fac-simile des éditions originales avec une introduction par Hippolyte Cocheris"--Cover
Originally published: La fleur des patrons de lingerie
An intimate affair : women, lingerie, and sexuality / Jill Fields
Author:
Fields, Jill 1954-
Physical description:
xvi, 375 p. : ill ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2007
C2007
Topic:
Lingerie--History
Women's clothing--History
Clothing and dress--Symbolic aspects
Clothing and dress--Erotic aspects
Advertising--Fashion
Contents:
Drawers -- Corsets and girdles -- Brassieres -- The meaning of black lingerie -- The invisible woman : intimate apparel advertising -- The production of glamour : intimate apparel workers and union culture -- Return of the repressed (waist), 1947-1952 -- Epilogue: Bra vs. bra : feminist intimate apparel art
"Cet ouvrage est publié à l'occasion de l'exposition présentée à la Bibliothéque Forney, dans les salles de l'ancien hôtel des Archevêques de Sens, du 17 septembre au 28 novembre 1992"--P. 2
Anywhere in America..Salespeople in the Finest Stores Will.. [Print advertising.] Women's publications. 1929
Creator:
Procter & Gamble Company
Physical description:
1 item col. 41 x 53.5 cm
Type:
Print advertising
Date:
1929
Topic:
Shopping
Silk
Hosiery
Wool fabrics
Lingerie
Premiums (Retail trade)
Laundry
Women
Local number:
245720
Ivorydata4 1577
0307910382 (Scan No.)
Summary:
Caption: "Anywhere in America...Salespeople in the Finest Stores Will Tell You...". 2 page ad. Illustration of shopper and saleswoman looking at fabric in center
