Collection by Design: A Paper Doll History of Costume: 1750-1900 - Softcover

Meehan, Edward J.; Druesedow, Jean L.; Meehan, Norma Lu; Kent State University Museum

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0896724212 ISBN 13: 9780896724211

Publisher: Texas Tech Press,U.S., 1999

Synopsis

Offers a generous sampling of the Kent State University Museum Collection, founded by internationally renowned designers Kent Rodgers and Jerry Silverman that presents the glamour of the first half of the twentieth century. It is suitable for costumers, collectors, curators, historians, and teachers and students of design.

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About the Author

NORMA LU MEEHAN, a fashion illustrator for forty years, called upon that experience when she began creating historic costume paper dolls in 1991. She lives in South Bend, Indiana, where she is a volunteer costume curator at the Northern Indiana Center for History. MEI CAMPBELL is curator of ethnology and textiles at the Museum of Texas Tech University and a member of the university's graduate faculty of the Center for Advanced Studies in Museum Science and Heritage Management. Since 2003, she has also served as adjunct professor at the Fu-Jen Catholic University in Taiwan. She lives near Lubbock, Texas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Texas Tech Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0896724212
• ISBN 13: 9780896724211
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 36