Books
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Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Over 700 reference books covering a variety of disciplines and including foreign language dictionaries. Includes a concept map, which provides related subjects and noted personalities to assist beginning research.
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ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window ProQuest Ebook Central provides ebooks from scholarly sources, including University Presses and other top publishers. To create a personal bookshelf or to access off-campus, sign in using your Emmanuel username and password. For more details on using Ebook Central explore the Proquest LibGuide.
Selected Reference Books
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The History of Modern Fashion"Focusing on fashion from 1850, noted fashion historians Daniel James Cole and Nancy Deihl consider the evolution of womenswear, menswear, and childrenswear, decade by decade"
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Salem Press Online This link opens in a new windowUse the options on the left to browse The Decades in America from 1920s - 2000s.
Suggested Videos/Web Sites
Videos
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Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new windowSample search:
fashion OR dress OR clothes OR clothing
AND
1960s OR sixties
Websites
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Fashion History Timeline (Fashion Institute of Technology)See Time Period from the top menu and also search by topic.
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Artstor Digital ArchivesUse the Advanced Search to limit the date.
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Costume Institute Collections, The Metropolitan Museum of ArtAlso explore the MET Publications available for download.
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New York Public Library Digital Collections180,000 digitized photos, postcards, maps, and other images freely available online and in the public domain. The NYPL has made the decision to treat these public-domain images as public intellectual property that can be reused by members of the public in any way they want. (For the New York Public Library’s Press Release on promoting transformative use of their materials, click here.)
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Library of CongressExplore the Digital Collections.
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Victoria and Albert Museum"From ancient Chinese ceramics to Alexander McQueen evening dresses, take an incredible journey through 5000 years of human creativity with our online collections."
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Digital Dress Collection - 1716-1992Wayne State University
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Texas Fashion Collection in UNT Digital LibraryUniversity of North Texas
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Costume and TextilesUniversity of Washington
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Getty Search GatewayLimit search to "Open Content Images"
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Europeana"Europeana provides cultural heritage enthusiasts, professionals, teachers, and researchers with digital access to European cultural heritage material."
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Google Image Search
- Evaluate the source of the image (museum, college archives, etc.)
- Include site:.edu to limit to educational institutions.
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Internet Archive
- Use the filters on the left to filter by time period.
Magazines/Journals
Selected Journals/Magazines
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EbonyExplore older issues on Google Books.
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Vanity FairView archives.
Note: Limited content is available as a guest.
Selected Databases
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Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary database with extensive full-text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion, theology and other disciplines in the humanities. Indexes 8,450 publications with full text for more than 4,600 of those titles (more than 3,900 are peer-reviewed). PDF backfiles to 1975 or earlier for more than one hundred journals. Searchable cited references for more than 1,000 publications.
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Art Full Text This link opens in a new window Art Full-Text provides articles from over 300 journals from 1995 to present and abstracts and indexing of more than 600 periodicals back to 1984, many of them peer-reviewed. Expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. Art Index Retrospective indexes almost 600 titles published between 1929 and 1984.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
- Use the Image Search
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Project MUSE This link opens in a new window All journal titles in Project MUSE are peer reviewed, scholarly titles. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
- Click on the Full-Text@Emmanuel at the right of articles or the more option below the item record.
- Search for the journal title using the A-Z Journals by Title list to verify the journals peer-reviewed status.
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Searching Tips
- Potential Search Terms:
Dress, fashion, clothing, clothes, fads, trends, men’s clothing, women’s clothing - Include information about the time period
For example: Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century
Books on Reserve
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50 Designers/50 Costumes
Call Number: Temporarily on Reserves (2 hour in library use only)ISBN: 0942102460 -
Fashion Since 1900 2e
by
Call Number: Temporarily on Reserves (2 hour in library use only)ISBN: 9780500204023 -
Survey of Historic Costume
Call Number: Temporarily on Reserves (2 hour in library use only)ISBN: 9781563678066
Historical Newspapers
See complete list on the Newspaper guide.
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New York Times - Academic Pass This link opens in a new windowUse the TimesMachine site to explore over 150 years of Times journalism, as it originally appeared.
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Chronicling America: Historic American NewspapersOptions include All Digitized Newspaper Pages from 1789 to 1963 and U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690 - Present. Library of Congress
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Google Archival NewspapersClick "Search Archive" to limit to the archive newspapers.
Boston Public Library Newspapers
Registering for a Library Card
- How to register for a full-service library card for access to all the library resources.
- Note: Apply for a BPL eCard to access the library’s remotely-accessible electronic resources.
- Borrowing and Circulation information.
Newspapers guide
Includes access to 19th Century US Newspapers, American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collections, Gale Newsvault, and Newspaper Archives.
Citations
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MLA Citation Style
by Diane Zydlewski Last Updated Aug 11, 2025 65 views this year
For citations for images, include: Author or creator, Date of publication, Title, Publisher/entity, and URL (if applicable).