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Fashion Plate Collection, 19th Century

Owning Institution: Claremont Colleges Library

About this Collection

The Myrtle Tyrrell Kirby Fashion Plate Collection comprises 650 images of nineteenth-century fashion plates from the Macpherson Collection of the Ella Strong Denison Library at Scripps College. The collection was donated to the Denison Library in 1948 by Scripps Trustee Benjamin Kirby (1876-1957) and is named for his first wife, Myrtle Tyrrell Kirby (1881-1942). In addition to the Myrtle Tyrrell Kirby collection, the digital collection includes 65 fashion plates donated to the Denison Library by Elliot E. Lawrence. View this collection on the contributor's website.

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676 items found in this collection

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Afternoon dress, Winter 1800
Afternoon dress, Winter 1800
Afternoon dress, Winter 1800
American ball gown, 1898
American ball gown, Spring 1898
American ball gown, Winter 1895
American ball gown, Winter 1898
American equestrians with nanny and child, 1855
American evening gown, 1895
American evening gown, Winter 1905
An American family, 1837
American fashion, Spring 1896
American fashion, Spring 1899
American fashions, 1846
American fashions, 1848
American fashions, 1866
American fashions, 1895
American fashions, 1897
American fashions, 1902
American fashions, 1902
American fashions, 1902
American fashions, 1902
American fashions, 1902
American fashions, 1902
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