Browse Collections (22 total)

The Tirocchi Collection: Textiles

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Overview - The Tirocchi Collection at the University of Rhode Island consists of well over 1000 objects including dresses, unfinished “robes,”…

Contributors: Deborah Siravo, MS '08

Parasols and Umbrellas

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The Historic Textile and Costume Collection (HTCC) owns eighty-six parasols and umbrellas dating from 1775 to 1930. A parasol is defined as “a light,…

Contributors: Maria Vazquez, MS '18

Feminism and Fashion of the Twentieth Century

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Feminism and Fashion presents feminist history alongside historic garments from the Historic Textile and Costume Collection. Arranged in chronological…

Contributors: Miranda DiCenza, MS '18

The Tirocchi Collection: Robes

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Overview - The Tirocchi Collection at the University of Rhode Island consists of well over 1000 objects including dresses, unfinished “robes,”…

Contributors: Hilary S. Baker, MS '14

Women's Quilted Petticoats

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The Historic Textile and Costume Collection contains  fourteen 18th- and 19th- century quilted petticoats or parts. These petticoats represent the…

Exhibition at Rosecliff
Preservation Society of Newport County

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John James Audubon: Obsession Untamed explores the naturalist’s relentless pursuit of the birds of America and his singular determination in seeing…

La Mode Artistique and the fashion plates of Gustave Janet

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Little is known about Gustave Janet. Born in France in 1829, he became a draughtsman and lithographer, working for a variety of publishers before his…

Contributors: Susan J. Jerome, MS '06
Collections Manager

Fashion Plates

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Fashion Plates Fashion plates originated in the French court of Louis XIV during the last quarter of the seventeenth century. Hand-colored engraved…

Contributors: Joann T. Steere, MS '11
Linda M. Welters, PhD

The Fashions of London & Paris During the Years 1804, 1805 & 1806

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The Fashions of London & Paris During the Years 1804, 1805 & 1806. Printed for Richard Phillips, 6 New Bridge Street, Blackfriars (London)…

Contributors: Linda M. Welters, PhD

The Photograph Collection

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The URI Historic Textile and Costume Collection houses several hundred photographs ranging from the early daguerreotypes of the 1840s to paper…