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Parnis, Mollie. Artist file.

Title: Artist file.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/302340250 View

Brooklyn Museum of Art Libraries and Archives,. Fashion and costume sketch collection: designer files.

Title: Fashion and costume sketch collection: designer files.

The designer files include correspondence between designers and librarians Grace Banker and Mary Dorward regarding their project to collect fashion and costume sketches and compile biographical information directly from designers. The original questionnaires (primarily 1942) and typed biographies (compiled by Pratt Institute students in 1954), are included. The files may also contain advertising tearsheets and brochures, clippings, press releases, photographs of garments and designers, invitations, and notes. Of particular note are the more extensive file on Henri Bendel, documenting the 1944 Brooklyn Museum of Art exhibition, "French Fashion Sketches, 1920-1940"; and the Vera Maxwell file, which includes a series of radio broadcast transcripts from the 1940s. Only the files of the following 39 designers contain questionnaires: Adrian, Charles Armour, Brownie, Louise Brune, Bruno, Bonnie Cashin, Jo Copeland, Vincent Coppola, Lilly Dache, Herman Delman, Stephen Erklin, Eta, Louise Gallagher, Edith Head, Philippe Hulitor, Merry Hull, Irene, Vera Jacobs, Omar Kiam, Kiviette, Morris Kraus, Josef S. Lanz, Helen Liebert, Mabs of Hollywood, Claire McCardell, Margot Kops McClintock, Monica, Renee Montague, Germaine Monteil, Mark Moring, Nina Price, Natalie Renke, Nettie Rosenstein, Jean Schlumberger, Adele Simpson, Patricia Spaulding, Jessie Franklin Turner, Joset Walker, Joseph Whitehead.

ArchivalResource: 2 document boxes

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81907997 View

Parnis, Mollie, 1905- : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

Title: Parnis, Mollie, 1905- : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

The folders may include clippings, announcements, small exhibition catalogs, advertisements, and other ephemeral items.

ArchivalResource: 6 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/201476405 View

Brooklyn Museum. Art Reference Library. Fashion and costume sketch collection.

Title: Fashion and costume sketch collection.

The Fashion and Costume Sketch Collection documents the work of 68 American designers. It includes original sketches in pencil, ink, and watercolor, many of which are augmented by fabric swatches. Also included are some photographs of completed garments and notes relating to the designs. The work of the garment industry of New York's Seventh Avenue is heavily represented, along with a smaller amount of material documenting costumes by Broadway and Hollywood designers.

ArchivalResource: 125 print boxes

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79188741 View