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Costume Design: Historical Images

Brief guide to using resources, both in the library and online, for image-based research into costume design.

Historical Images

 

 

Gerritsen Collection
Full text (digitized images) of 4,700 books, pamphlets and periodicals about women. Includes materials back to the 16th century.

 

 

 

Harper's Weekly
A Journal of Civilization.” Great for the US Civil War and Reconstruction era because covers 1857-1912. PDF format.

 

 
Historical Chicago Tribune
Provides full page and article images from 1849 (the first issue) to 1992. Unlike most newspaper indexes, HCT shows ads, comics, and obituaries

 

Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600 to 2000

Women and Social Movements in the United States is a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding about U.S. history generally at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools. The collection currently includes 114 document projects and archives with almost 4,600 documents and more than 155,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by more than 2,300 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.

 

Multidisciplinary

Academic Search Complete, 1985- .
Covers a wide variety of topics, including minorities and education. Contains a mix of scholarly and general audience publications. Consider using the limit to scholarly (peer reviewed) journals box. EBSCO. Dates vary.

InfoTrac (Expanded Academic Index), 1980- .
InfoTrac is one of the WIU Libraries’ most popular multidisciplinary database. Easy to use and a majority of the citations include full text.

Womens' Studies Innternational
WSI covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Coverage includes more than 871,000 records and spans from 1972 and earlier to present.

Google

Google Scholar Search