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Archive Resources
General Archival Research Guides
http://www2.archivists.org/usingarchives
– A very comprehensive guide including general archive usage guidelines and a sample finding aid
http://newschoolarchives.org/?p=903
– A simple how-to guide for contacting archivists and requesting materials
http://library.newschool.edu/archives/
- A guide to the New School’s own archival collections and some general information on how to evaluate primary resources
http://guides.library.newschool.edu/c.php?g=274422&p=1830796
https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/
Databases (available online via The New School Libraries):
- The Berg Fashion Library
- New York Times Archive
- Stylesight/WGSN
- Vogue Archive
- Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) Archive
- Harper’s Bazaar Archive
Online Image Archives/Museum Collections:
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art: http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection
- The Victoria & Albert Museum: http://collections.vam.ac.uk
- The Kyoto Costume Institute: http://www.kci.or.jp/archives/digital_archives/index_e.html
- The Museum at FIT: http://fashionmuseum.fitnyc.edu
- The New School Archives and Special Collections: http://digitalarchives.library.newschool.edu
- Europeana Fashion Project (multiple museums and collections): http://www.europeanafashion.eu/portal/home.html
- The New York Public Library: http://digitalcollections.nypl.org
- The New York Public Library: https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/mid-manhattan-library/picture-collection
- The University of Washington’s Fashion Plate Collection: http://content.lib.washington.edu/costumehistweb/index.html
- The Museum of the City of New York: http://collections.mcny.org/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=Home
- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art: http://collections.lacma.org/advanced-search
- The Philadelphia Museum of Art: http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/search.html
- The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising: http://fidmmuseum.org/collections/introduction/
- Columbia College Chicago: http://www.colum.edu/academics/fashion-collection/index.html
- The Chicago History Museum: http://digitalcollection.chicagohistory.org/cdm/search/collection/p16029coll3/field/classi/searchterm/costume%20(mode%20of%20fashion)/mode/exact
- The Indianapolis Museum of Art: http://www.imamuseum.org/collections/browse-collection/textile-fashion-arts
- The Museum of Fine Arts Boston: http://www.mfa.org/collections/textiles-and-fashion-arts
- Rijks Museum: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio/works-of-art/costumes
- The University of North Texas: http://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/TXFC/
- The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/
Films/Video/Television/Misc.
British Pathè: The Fashion Archive: http://www.britishpathe.com/workspaces/BritishPathe/The-Fashion-Archive
https://archive.org/details/prelinger&tab=collection
Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. Over the next twenty years, it grew into a collection of over 60,000 “ephemeral” (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. In 2002, the film collection was acquired by the Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Prelinger Archives remains in existence, holding approximately 11,000 digitized and videotape titles (all originally derived from film) and a large collection of home movies, amateur and industrial films acquired since 2002. Its primary collection emphasis has turned toward home movies and amateur films, with approximately 12,000 items held as of Spring 2015. Its goal remains to collect, preserve, and facilitate access to films of historic significance that haven’t been collected elsewhere. Included are films produced by and for many hundreds of important US corporations, nonprofit organizations, trade associations, community and interest groups, and educational institutions. Getty Images represents the collection for stock footage sale, and over 6,400 items (representing approximately 4,800 distinct films) are available here.
“All avant-garde. All the time”
Design-related Archives in NYC
AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) Archives
Columbia University, Avery Architectural and Fine Art Library
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Fashion Institute of Technology Library, Special Collections and Archives
http://blog.fitnyc.edu/materialmode/contact-us/
Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography at the Cooper Union houses over 5,000 pieces of original design ephemera by such designers as Paul Rand, Lou Dorfsman, Push Pin Studios, George Lois, Alvin Lustig, Will Burtin, Lester Beall, Lou Silverstein, Bradbury Thompson, Otl Aicher, Karl Gerstner, Anthon Beeke, Tibor Kalman, Massimo Vignelli, Chip Kidd, and countless others. Each and every piece in the collection can be accessed by the public.
Interference Archive documents social movements through posters and fliers, audio-visual records, buttons and t-shirts, print publications, and a range of other formats. New School students are welcome to use the archives for research projects.
Museum of the City of New York Primarily New York-relevant material, including some good collections of family papers.
Museum of Modern Art Mainly records of the museum itself, but this itself is very important for the bigger picture since MoMA played such a significant role in defining modern art and design through the 20th century.
New York Art Resources Consortium (ARCADE) provides bibliographic access to the Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives, the Frick Art Reference Library, and the Museum of Modern Art Library.
New York Historical Society Probably the most extensive collection of material on NYC from well before the revolution to the present. A number of their collections are specific to design, but you’ll turn up design-related material anywhere you look.
New York Public Library A lot of material, some but not all NYC-specific. Includes a great map collection that is only partially digitized. A lot of old, rich New York families, which often includes patrons and even producers of the arts and design, will donate generations of family papers to the NYPL.
NYU Includes Tamiment (holdings relating to US labor movement) and Fales (rare books), among others.
School of Visual Arts Archives
United Nations Everything the UN and its many agencies touch goes into these to use. Regarding design, you can find material on development, public awareness, and the landmark project of the UN campus.
Outside NYC:
Rockefeller Archive Center Just over an hour north on mass transit, including a short cab ride at the end. Originally an archive for the Rockefeller family (which itself has extensive connections with design), the place has absorbed the collections of a number of important non-profit organizations with their own philanthropic connections to design, including the Ford Foundation.
Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art Highly recommended by the Kellen Archives. Includes designers. Many of the Archives of American Art’s collections are digitized to some degree and available through the website.
