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Alida C. Avery, born in New York in 1833, served Vassar as both professor of Physiology and Hygiene and campus physician.vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu/faculty/original-faculty/origin...

Creator: Les Modes Parisiennes: Peterson's Magazine

Date: 1884

Les Modes Parisiennes: Peterson's Magazine
American fashions, Winter 1884

Date: 1935

Aqua and cream child's dress with collar and long sleeves.; aqua and cream child's floor length dress with shawl/detachable collar, long sleeves, embroidery on collar and cuffs; sleeves and collar are wool, the rest is cotton; smocked front, hook and…

Date: 1885

Listed at 881 Broadway in 1885.

Jersey knit, china silk, cotton. Avocado drop-waist dress with cream broom lace and white lace collar. Ankle-length skirt with side panels and sash.

Date: 1865

B. Altman & Co. store opens at 39 Third Avenue in 1865.

Date: 1868

B. Altman & Co. store opens at 331 Sixth Avenue in 1868.

Date: 1877

B. Altman & Co. store opens at 301 Sixth Avenue in 1877, at the location that had been his brother's store before his death.

Creator: STUDIO - Mary McFadden

Date: 1985-1999

B&W Houndstooth Suit Jacket; collar-less women's suitjackety with b&w houndstooth check pattern; 10 princess panels; plastic zipper closure at CF with metal and leather tag, shoulder pads, zipper runs from waist to bustline, fitted at waist, flares…

Date: 2014-05-13

Some students from the group Project AWARE, posing in corsets during a visit to the Vassar College Costume Collection for "Trying on History"

Date: 2008

For his wedding ceremony, Emmanuel Naval wore a Barong Tagalog, a traditional formal shirt of the Philippines, made of pina cloth, which is woven from pineapple leaf fibers and is valued for its rarity.

Basketball player, from the 2000 Vassarion

Date: 1890-1905

A black, velvet, beaded bodice with leg o' mutton sleeves and a yellow lined collar. There is black floral beading and embroidery on the chest and lower sleeves, four groups of piping in rows of three on each sleeve, yellowing lace on the wrists,…

Date: 1920-1929

Black chiffon dress with beaded bow at dropped waist. Sheer black silk crepe chiffon, round white glass beads, mother of pearl, silver bugle beads, metal snaps, black grosgrain ribbon inner waistband with metal hooks and eyes.

beaded flapper dress; cream silk chiffon;

gun metal seed beads forming 1.5 inch wide horizontal striped pattern, 7 repetitions;

left strap dyed blue gray;

CF square panel with wider beading pattern;

31 inch ties at CF waist;

skirt with 10…