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• Clothing and dress -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions

• The Ceaseless Century: 300 Years of Eighteenth-Century Costume (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1998), by Richard Martin, illust. by Karin L. Willis (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western Dress (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1994), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

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• American Dresses 1790-1900: Identification and Significance of 148 Extant Dresses (second edition, expanded; Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 2020), by Elsie Frost McMurry, ed. by Susan W. Greene, illust. by Cathie Simpson (PDF at Cornell)

• The little sampler : costumes, 1830-1908 (M.J. Glover, 1947), by Mary Julian Glover (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Catalogue of American historical costumes, including those of the mistresses of the White House, as shown in the United States National Museum (Washington, 1915), by Rose Hoes and United States National Museum (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life and fashion in America, 1650-1900 (Hastings house, 1946), by Paul McPharlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The good old days; a history of American morals and manners as seen through the Sears, Roebuck catalogs 1905 to the present (Simon and Schuster, 1940), by David L. Cohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• American clothing--identity in mass culture, 1840-1990. (New York State College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, 1991), by Beate Ziegert and Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (page images at HathiTrust)
• American clothing--identity in mass culture, 1840-1990 : featuring the Cornell Costume Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Musem of Art, Cornell University, May 25, 1991 to September, 1991 (Dept. of Textiles and Apparel, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, 1991), by Jennifer Parker, Beate Ziegert, Jean Signorelli, New York State College of Human Ecology. Dept. of Textiles and Apparel, and Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two centuries of costume in America, 1620-1820 (Macmillan, 1903), by Alice Morse Earle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• American Dresses 1790-1900: Identification and Significance of 148 Extant Dresses (second edition, expanded; Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 2020), by Elsie Frost McMurry, ed. by Susan W. Greene, illust. by Cathie Simpson (PDF at Cornell)

• B. Altman & Co. fall and winter : catalogue number one hundred ten (Altman & Co., 1915), by B. Altman & Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• Exclusive automobile apparel and requisites. (Saks & Co., 1905), by N.Y.) Saks & Company (New York (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Ingenuity: Sportswear, 1930s-1970s (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998), by Richard Martin, illust. by Karin L. Willis (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Dance: A Very Social History (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rizzoli, c1986), by Carol Wallace, Don McDonagh, Jean L. Druesedow, Laurence Libin, and Constance Old (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Bare Witness (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1996), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Projet Félix (Lemercier, 1900), by France) Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Manchu Dragon: Costumes of the Ch'ing Dynasty, 1644-1912 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980), by Jean Mailey (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Musée rétrospectif des classes 85 & 86 : le costume et ses accessoires : a l'Exposition universelle internationale de 1900, à Paris (Belin Frères, 1900), by France) Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris and Georges Cain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Haute Couture (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1995), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Haute Couture (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1995), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Bare Witness (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1996), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Christian Dior (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1996), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda, illust. by Karin L. Willis (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Madame Grès (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda, illust. by Marcia Lippman (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Infra-Apparel (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993), by Richard Martin (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• La Belle Époque (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982), by Philippe Jullian, ed. by Diana Vreeland (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, c2006), by Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton, contrib. by Mimi Hellman (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789-1815 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1989), ed. by Katell Le Bourhis, contrib. by Charles-Otto Zieseniss, Philippe Séguy, Clare Le Corbeiller, Pierre Arizzoli-Clémentel, Jean Coural, Chantal Gastinel-Coural, Raoul Brunon, Colombe Samoyault-Verlet, and Michele Majer (page images and PDF at metmuseum.org)

• La Belle Époque (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982), by Philippe Jullian, ed. by Diana Vreeland (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress, 1837-1877 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1988), by Caroline Goldthorpe (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western Dress (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1994), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western Dress (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1994), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789-1815 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1989), ed. by Katell Le Bourhis, contrib. by Charles-Otto Zieseniss, Philippe Séguy, Clare Le Corbeiller, Pierre Arizzoli-Clémentel, Jean Coural, Chantal Gastinel-Coural, Raoul Brunon, Colombe Samoyault-Verlet, and Michele Majer (page images and PDF at metmuseum.org)

• From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress, 1837-1877 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1988), by Caroline Goldthorpe (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• History of Russian Costume from the Eleventh to the Twentieth Century (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977), by T. S. Aleshina, I. I. Vishnevskaia, L. V. Efimova, Tamara Timofeevna Korshunova, V. A. Malm, E. Moiseenko, M. M. Postnikova-Loseva, and E. P. Chernukha (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• USA '76 : the first two hundred years : a bicentennial exhibit (The Administration, 1975), by American Revolution Bicentennial Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commemoration of the fourth centenary of the discovery of America, Columbian Historical Exposition, Madrid. (G.P.O., 1895), by Spain) Exposición Histórico-Americana (1892 : Madrid, Stephen Bleecker Luce, and United States. Commission to the Madrid Exposition (page images at HathiTrust)
• The exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution and United States National Museum at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 1909. (Judd & Detweiler], 1909), by Smithsonian Institution and United States National Museum (page images at HathiTrust)

• Illinois through two hundred and forty-five years, 1673-1918 : catalogue of objects illustrating Illinois history, selected from the collections of the Chicago Historical Society : exhibited in Orchestra Hall in commemoration of the centennial of Illinois statehood, April nineteenth MDCCC XVIII. (The Society, 1918), by Chicago Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kansas historical exhibit ([s.n.], 1893), by Kansas State Historical Society and Ill.). Kansas World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)

• Michigan through three centuries : a guide to an exhibition of books, maps and manuscripts in the William L. Clements Library. (University of Michigan Press, 1937), by William L. Clements Library (page images at HathiTrust)

• Missouri: the sesquicentennial of statehood; an exhibition in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., December 15, 1971, to September 4, 1972. ([For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1971), by Library of Congress, Leonard C. Faber, and Arthur G. Burton (page images at HathiTrust)

• American encounters : a companion to the exhibition at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution (National Museum of American History, 1992), by Howard Alexander Morrison and National Museum of American History (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown : a generation of architecture. (Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1984), by Krannert Art Museum and Rauch Venturi (page images at HathiTrust)
• A flexagon of structure and design : an exhibition circulated by the Milwaukee Art Center (The Center, 1960), by Arthur Alfonso Carrara (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buildings for business and government : exhibition, February 25-April 28, 1957, the Museum of Modern Art. (The Museum, 1957), by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• John Singleton Copley in America (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1995), by Carrie Rebora Barratt, Paul J. Staiti, Erica E. Hirshler, Theodore E. Stebbins, and Carol Troyen, contrib. by Morrison H. Heckscher, Aileen Ribeiro, and Marjorie Shelley (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• In Quest of Comfort: The Easy Chair in America (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971), by Morrison H. Heckscher (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• In Quest of Comfort: The Easy Chair in America (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971), by Morrison H. Heckscher (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Ties that bind : communities in American history (National Archives, 1992), by Lisa B. Auel and United States National Archives and Records Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Rococo, 1750-1775: Elegance in Ornament (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1992), by Morrison H. Heckscher and Leslie Greene Bowman (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

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