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ARTH 25880: Fashion and Twentienth Century Art

A research guide for students in Jen Cohen's class (Winter 2018)

Local research collections

  • Center for Research Libraries Catalog
    A consortium of academic and independent research libraries, CRL holds important collections of international newspapers and magazines; foreign doctoral dissertations; and ephemeral materials. Use Interlibrary Loan to request materials from CRL.
     
  • Fashion Resource Center at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
    "A collection of late twentieth and twenty-first century designer garments and accessories representative of extreme innovation."
     
  • The Fashion Study Collection at Columbia College
    "An exceptional collection of designer garments, fashion history, and ethnic dress. A hands-on, academic, and inspirational resource for students and the public, the FSC was founded in 1989 and has grown to house more than 6,000 items."
  • Costume and Textile Collection at the Chicago History Museum
    "With over 50,000 costumes and textile artifacts from the mid-18th century to the present, the Museum’s Costume Collection is the second largest in the world and one of the nation’s most complete repositories of fashion. The digital collection holds multiple views of nearly 400 costume and textile artifacts."