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Costume, Fancy Dress or Theatrical | Embroidery | Fashion | Historical and Ethnic | Lace and Lacemaking | Millinery | Sewing Basics | Sewing Machines | Tailoring | Uniformed Service Groups

Costume, Fancy Dress or Theatrical

• Character Suitable for Fancy Costume Balls. By Marie Schild. 1881. A Victorian take on many character costumes.
• Costume: fanciful, historical, and theatrical. By Mrs. Aria (Eliza Davis). 1906. (University of Michigan copy)
• Costume Design and Dressmaking, Volume 2, Parts 13-23 By Fashion Academy, Inc. 1921. (NY Public Library copy)
• Costumes and Scenery for Amateurs: a practical working handbook. By Constance D'Arcy Mackay 1915. (NY Public Library copy)
• Male Character Costumes, a Guide to Gentlemen's Costume Suitable for Fancy Dress balls and Private Theatricals. 1884.

Embroidery

• Art in Needlework: a book about embroidery. By Lewis Foreman Day, Mary Buckle and B.T. Batsford. 1907.
• Elementary Embroidery. By Mrs. Mary (Symonds) Antrobus. 1915. (University of Wisconsin copy)
• Embroidery: or the craft of the needle. By W. G. Paulson Townsend. 1899. (Stanford University copy)
• Jacobean Embroidery: its forms and fillings including late Tudor. By Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam and A. F. Morris Hands. 1913; (University of California copy)

Fashion

• The Secrets of Distinctive Dress. By Mary Brooks Picken. Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences. 1918.

Historical and Ethnic

• Art in Costume Design: practical suggestions for those interested in art, sewing, history and literature. By Edna Mann Shover. Milton Bradley company. 1920. (Indiana University copy
• Costume in England: a history of dress to the end of the eighteenth century. By Frederick William Fairholt. 3rd edition. 1885. (Harvard University Library)
• Costume of Colonial Times. By Alice Morse Earle. 1894. (Harvard University copy)
• Costume of the Ancients. By Thomas Hope. 2d ed. 1809. (Stanford University copy)
• A Cyclopedia of Costume Vol. II A General History Of Costume In Europe. By James Robinson Planche. 1879.
• English Costume, Volume 3 - Tudor and Stuart. By Dion Clayton Calthrop. 1906. (Harvard University copy)
• English Costume, Volume 4 - Georgian. By Dion Clayton Calthrop. 1906. (Harvard University copy)
• The Heritage of Dress: being notes on the history and evolution of clothes. By Wilfred Mark Webb. 1907. (Univ. of Michigan copy)
• Historic dress in America, 1607-1800: Volume 1. By Elisabeth McClellan. 1904. (Princeton University copy)
• Historic Dress in America, 1607-1800. By Elisabeth McClellan. 1904. (1917 printing) (Univ. of Michigan copy)
• Historic Dress in America, 1800-1870. By Elisabeth McClellan. 1910. (University of Michigan copy)
• Instructive Costume Design. By Emil Alvin Hartman. 1922. (Univ. of Michigan copy)
• McIan's Costumes of the Clans of Scotland: with seventy-four coloured plates. 1899. (Harvard University copy)
• Select Historical Costumes Compiled from the Most Reliable Sources. By Henry L. Hinton. 1868. (Harvard University copy)
• Two Centuries of Costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1620-1820). By Alice Morse Earle. 1903. (Two Volumes in one) (Univ. of Michigan copy)

Lace and Lacemaking

• The Lace & Embroidery Collector: a guide to collectors of old lace and embroidery. By R. E. Head. 1922. (University of Wisconsin copy)
• Modern Lace-making: advanced studies. By Butterick Publishing Company. 1901. (Cornell University copy)
• Pillow Lace, a Practical Hand-book. By Elizabeth Mincoff and Mrs. Margaret S. Marriage. 1907. (University of California copy)

Millinery

• Millinery. By Charlotte Rankin Aiken, B.A. 1922. (University of Michigan copy)
• Modern Millinery: a workroom text book containing complete instruction in the work of preparing, making and copying millinery... By Hester B. Lyon. 1922. (Indiana Univerity copy)
• Practical Millinery. By Jessica Ortner. 1897. (NY Public Library copy)
• Practical Millinery Lessons: a complete course of lessons in the art of millinery. By Julia Bottomley. 1914 (Cornell University copy)

Sewing Basics

• American Dressmaking Step by Step: containing complete, concise, up-to-date and comprehensible instruction in Sewing, Dressmaking and Tailoring. By Lydia Trattles Coates. 1917. (Stanford University copy)
• The Art of Dressmaking. By Sophie Klug. 1895. (Radcliffe copy)
• Clothing for Women: selection, design, construction; a practical manual for school and home. By Laura Irene Baldt. 1916. (University of Virginia copy)
• Cutting Out and Dressmaking. By E. Grand'Homme. 1879. (Harvard University copy)
• Dressmaking: a manual for schools and colleges. By Jane Fales. 1917. (Harvard Copy)
• Hand Sewing Lessons: a graded course for schools and for the home. By Sarah Ewell Krolik. 1905. (University of California copy)
• The Hand-book of Dress-making. By Mary J. Howell. 1845. (Bodleian Library copy)
• Household Sewing with Home Dressmaking. By Bertha Banner. 1898. (Harvard University copy)
• School Needlework, a Course of Study in Sewing Designed for Use in Schools. By Olive C. Hapgood, teacher of sewing in Boston Public Schools. 1892. (Harvard University copy)
• School Needlework: a book written for the beginner of any age and in any school. By Olive C. Hapgood, Ella Josephine Spooner. Revised. 1922. (University of Wisconsin copy)
• Scientific Sewing and Garment Cutting: for use in schools and in the home. By Antoinette Van Hoesen Wakeman and Louise M. Heller. 1998. (University of California copy)
• Sewing: handicraft for girls; a graded course for city and rural schools. By Idabelle McGlauflin. 1918 Rev. ed. (University of California copy)
• Sewing and Textiles: first lessons for elementary schools. By Mary Lockwood Matthews. 1921. (Harvard University copy)

Sewing Machines

• Sewing Machines. By Rosamond C. Cook. 1922.

Tailoring

• American Dressmaking Step by Step: containing complete, concise, up-to-date and comprehensible instruction in Sewing, Dressmaking and Tailoring. By Lydia Trattles Coates. 1917. (Stanford University copy)
• The "Keystone" jacket and dress cutter. A Treatise on Jackets, Dresses and Other Garments for Women. Published by The Herald of Fashion Co. in New York. 1895.
• The Practical Work of Dressmaking & Tailoring: with illustrations. By M. Prince Browne. 1920. (NY Public Library copy)

Uniformed Service Groups

• American Military Insignia 1800-1851. By J. Duncan Campbell. Published by the Smithsonian Institution. Bulletin 235. 1963.
• The Police Code and General Manual of the Criminal Law. By Sir Howard Vincent, K.C.M.G., C.B. 15th edition. 1912. Marcus Rowland, of a small British company named Forgotten Futures, has put the complete text on his web site. A compact guide to law, conduct, etc. for London policeman, by the man who founded Scotland Yard's CID (Criminal Investigation Department). It was used as a reference by all of the UK's police forces, and adapted to many Commonwealth forces. It should be useful to anyone researching British police forces from the Victorian era to well into the 1920s-30s. To make it easier to use Mr. Rowland has added several thousand links to entries in the text and indices. There is also a PDF version available. No photographs or drawings.