Theatre and Performance Studies

Selected Collections to search in Jstor images

- Browsing and searching within the collections are possible. To search, use the Search Within Collection search box.

• The Museum at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology)
  • approximately 250 images of its permanent collection, providing highlights of western fashion from the 17th to the 21st centuries.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Brooklyn Museum Costumes
  • nearly 6,000 images of American and European fashion and accessories from the MET's Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection

• Schlesinger Library of the History of Women in America (Harvard University)
  • documents the history and lives of American women, across a wide spectrum of activities and experiences of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Europeana

Online access to digitized content from Europe’s leading museums and archives.
Some sample searches with the theme Fashion selected:

• costumes
  • men's constume
  • women's constume
    • women's constume - linen
• hat
  • top hat

Use Advanced Search to target your searches. For example by When and Where, or What and When:

• 19th century and France
• Bonnet and 18th century

Google Arts & Culture has many exhibits created by professional costume departments that provide insight into their processes:

• Costume at the National Theatre (UK)
• Behind the Scenes at Dutch National Opera & Ballet
• Behind-the-scenes at the Bolshoi's costume department
• Behind the scenes at the Opéra National du Rhin (France)

Browse more exhibits.