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Costume

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on clothing treated as an artistic object, as well as works on clothing created for the stage, screen, or special events. Works on the utilitarian aspects of clothing, including works on how to dress, are entered under [Clothing and dress.]

Found in 164 Collections and/or Records:

Costume for Unknown Character in Skirt and Straw Hat, 1946

 Item
Identifier: M123.05.0175.0002.00013
Abstract

Costume design for unknown character for an unknown production by artist Charles Le Maire. Color sketch of character wearing white blouse, knee length grey skirt and flowered straw hat. Drawing mounted on red matting.

Dates: 1946

Costume Party, circa 1916

 Item
Identifier: B063.05.0021.00124
Abstract Sixteen young men and women dressed in costume pose together, the women wearing police uniforms and holding rifles and the men wearing prisoner costumes. Top row left to right: Elsie Lewin, an unidentified man, Jessie Heidenheimer, Mackie Heidenheimer, an unidentified woman, Adolph Mayer, Berry Isaacson, and Lou Isaacson. Middle row left to right: an unidentified woman, Selma Grauman, Rita Silversmith, and Dolly Triefus. Bottom row left to right: Sam Mayer, an unidentified man, Alvin...
Dates: circa 1916

Costume Party at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1931

 Item
Identifier: B063.03.0035.00088
Abstract

A costume party at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish workingmen along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. The sanatorium was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver.

Dates: circa 1931

Costume Patterns

 File
Identifier: D030.03.0028.0023
Abstract

File contains costume patterns for the Gwen Bowen School of Dance Arts.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1950 - 2012

Council of Jewish Junior Dress Up Party, circa 1925

 Item
Identifier: B063.04.0004.00092
Abstract

A large group of young women, members of the Council of Jewish Juniors, at a dress up party. Some of the women are dressed as men.

Dates: circa 1925

Council of Jewish Junior Dress Up Party, circa 1925

 Item
Identifier: B063.04.0004.00093
Abstract

A large group of young women, members of the Council of Jewish Juniors, at a dress up party. Some of the women are dressed as men. Some of the women are identified as Rose Brown, Faye Zuker, Bev F. Wagner, Lillian L Burke, Naomi Hellerstein, Rose Siegel, Mary Jacobs, Pauline Quiat, Goldie Nathenson, Lil Rosenthal, Julie Ackeman, Jeani Wiseman, Agnes Grosby, Lillian Cohen, Rita Heller, Billie Stein, Vera Rothchild, Bertha Kerstein, Florence Spitzer, Irene Miller, and Zelma Perlou.

Dates: circa 1925

Department of Theatre Records

 Collection
Identifier: U100
Abstract The department to theater was established in 1929, as the Department of Speech and Dramatic Arts. Students could obtain three degrees from the department when it first opened; Dramatic Arts, Speech A (public speaking) and Speech B (Oral interpretation). The University Civic Theater left the university in 1953 having officially separated themselves from the school financially in 1951. The department continued on as academic unit at the university until it was cut in 1984 due to university...
Dates: Other: 1934-1984

Edward M. Stevenston Costume Designs

 File
Identifier: M123.05.0175.0001
Abstract

Fourteen costume designs by artist Edward Stevenson for the production 'I Remember Mama.' Stevenson was the costume designer for the female performers in the film as of the same name which was released in 1948. 'I Remember Mama' is the story of the ups and downs of a Norwegian immigrant family, circa 1910.

Dates: 1850-2008

frid00062

 Item
Identifier: frid00062
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of over two terabytes of digital images, made available to the University Libraries by the Myhren Art Gallery at the University of Denver for the purposes of long-term preservation and user access. Images are curated at the item level.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1925-1964

frid00063

 Item
Identifier: frid00063
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of over two terabytes of digital images, made available to the University Libraries by the Myhren Art Gallery at the University of Denver for the purposes of long-term preservation and user access. Images are curated at the item level.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1925-1964