Dress reform graphics collection, 1880-1891.

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Dress reform graphics collection, 1880-1891.

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This portion of the collection contains engravings of Kate Field's Cooperative Dress Association Limited, New York City, to promote lower prices and simpler dress styles; a woman having a plaster cast made of her legs for use by art students; a corset with a padlock at the waist; and color political cartoons of "implements of torture leading to early death" (corset, high heels) and women at Chautauqua starting a dress reform movement.

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Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7441187

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Marshall, Alice K.

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Field, Kate, 1838-1896

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Kate Field was an American journalist and lecturer, also dramatist, novelist, and actress. She was well-known in Europe, and was popular in English literary circles. Lively, eccentric, and highly intelligent, she edited Kate Field's Washington during the last five years of her life. From the description of Kate Field letters and photos, 1876-1890. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 50163397 Actress, author, journalist, and lecturer. Fr...