Clothing and dress; Costume; Fashion; Fashion Plates; Fashion Illustrations
Two women at home. The left dress is blue silk with a double skirt, the longest being finished with narrow satin piping, a main work of the same extending on each side of the tunic. The Bertha collar is trimmed to correspond. The hair is dress...
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Home Dresses, the left showing a fitted bodice with bateau neckline and a chemisette, short sleeves, yoked waistline, and a full skirt with a scalloped edge pulled up and trimmed with flowers to reveal a wide-striped underskirt, hair and dress...
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Three day dresses, ankle-length hoop skirts with multiple flounced overskirts, coat sleeves, both v and horizontal lines on bodices, pleated ruffles or lace trim, small hat sitting on top of one's head and a small bonnet on center woman's head,...
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Two evening dresses with bustles, multiple overskirts with ruffles and lace trim, wrist length gloves, hair completely up with small feather in one's hair, necklace and bracelets, one has wide rounded neckline with short puff sleeves and pointed...
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Two day dresses with bustles, single ruffled overskirts, ruffles on underskirt, basque bodices, buttons down center front, stand up collar, long sleeves with wide cuffs, hats with flowers and bows. Young woman with a short bustle dress, basque...
Clothing and dress; Costume; Fashion; Fashion Plates; Fashion Illustrations
Two day dresses, sloping bustles, multiple ruffled overskirts shaped to form train, right has basque bodice with decorative buttons in back over bustle and on cuffs, stand up lace collar. Left wearing long cape with embroidery and bobbles or lace...
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Five day dresses with small sloped bustles, overskirts gathered multiple times, heavily trimmed with bows, ruffles, and contrasting fabric; most bodices have princess seams, buttons, stand up ruffles at throats, variety of hats trimmed with...
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Bridesmaid, wedding, day and two visiting dresses all with large bustles. Bridesmaid dress has wide neckline and cap sleeves, elbow length gloves, flounced and ruffled skirt. Wedding dress heavily trimmed with flowers and lace and fabric draped...
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Five day dresses, large bustles, overskirts gathered into bustle; two trimmed with lace, four have contrasting fabric, 3/4 length coat sleeves with wide cuffs and long gloves, fitted jacket style bodices with pleated fabric or lace insets, small...
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Five day dresses, moderate to large bustles, overskirts trimmed with embroidery, braid, or fur, two bodices are asymmetrically layered, two have jacket style bodices with lapels and buttons, leg-of-mutton sleeves, band collars on three, ""v""-neck...
Clothing and dress; Costume; Fashion; Fashion Plates; Fashion Illustrations
Two day dresses, large bustles, wide pleated skirts, basque bodices with large peplum draped over bustle (right dress), buttons, band collars; overskirts flounced, decorative buttons at waist and along bodice lines (left dress); both have 3/4...
Clothing and dress; Costume; Fashion; Fashion Plates; Fashion Illustrations
Two reception gowns with fitted skirts with bell flare, waist sashes, left dress has coat sleeves to elbow with turned back cuffs and loose undersleeves to cuff at wrist, square lace yoke and high collar; right dress has wide lapels with turned up...
Clothing and dress; Costume; Fashion; Fashion Plates; Fashion Illustrations
Two evening gowns, straight skirts trailing on floor, both round necklines, left one filled with lace to band around collar and pleated fabric up to jawline, short, loose sleeves over fitted long sleeves, fitted bodice; right dress has unstructured...
Clothing and dress; Costume; Fashion; Fashion Plates; Fashion Illustrations
Two day dresses both with fitted bodices and very full skirts. The left dress shows a coordinating bolero jacket over the bodice and long full sleeves. She is wearing a bonnet trimmed with flowers and lace at the back and top. The right dress also...
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Godey's Unrivalled Colored Fashions, showing daywear for a mother, two girls and a baby. The mother is wearing a fitted bodice covered with lace and ribbons over a chemisette, 3/4 length sleeves with multiple puffs ending in wide lace flounces and...
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Two day dresses with long sleeves and full skirts that are starting to show the shifting of the skirt's shape from conical to bustled. The left woman has a bodice with surplice style trim, a lace jabot, a ribbon belt, and a layered skirt with the...
Curtiss Hall; Agriculture Hall; Iowa State University;
This photo shows the front entryway to Curtiss Hall with its Ionic columns, stairs, and ornamental lamps. Three men and three women are ascending or descending the stairs; four men and one woman are either sitting by or leaning up against the...
Curtiss-Wright Engineering Cadettes, 1941-1945; Department of Military Science; Iowa State University; Women in Science and Engineering; World War II
Betty Cue, a stenographer at the Memorial Union, is seated showing a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk model plane to a cadette who is sitting on the floor in front of a fireplace. The plane has a wood framework with a paper exterior with a wind up, rubber-band...
Dyes and dying; Paints; Pammel, L. H. (Louis Hermann), 1862-1931
March 31, 1924
Dr. L. H. Pammel
Iowa State College
Department of Agriculture
Ames, Iowa
My dear Dr. Pammel:
After so long a time, I am getting off to you a few pecans. It seems as though my work has crowded upon me so severely that it has made it...
