Higonnet, Anne
Summary: By 1850 cash-flush Americans like J.P. Morgan, Henry Clay Frick, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Henry E. Huntington, Arabella Huntington, and Mildred and Robert Bliss went on collecting campaigns that netted masterpiece after masterpiece, along with the furniture and fittings of dozens of aristocratic residences. From the outset, these collectors planned to present their trophies to the public as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Periscope Pub. 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 708 HIGDe Hamel, Christopher
Summary: "The people who made, saved, and sometimes destroyed medieval manuscripts, over a thousand years of history, from the acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts. The Manuscripts Club tells of twelve men and women, from the eleventh century to the twentieth, who all share an overwhelming obsession with illuminated manuscripts. The saint, the patron, the bookseller, the artist, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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Summary: "The life work of Eunice W. Johnson, co-founder of Ebony magazine and a visionary who championed Black elegance through the Ebony Fashion Fair--a cross-country fashion show fundraiser"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books Inc. 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JOHHarvey, Miles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: GK Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 025.82 HARBurns, Cherie.
Summary: A portrait of the Standard Oil heiress and legendary American trendsetter Millicent Rogers. Nobody knew how to live the high life like Millicent Rogers. Born into luxury, she lived in a whirl of beautiful homes, European vacations, exquisite clothing and handsome men. Here, Cherie Burns chronicles Rogers's glittering life from her days as a young girl afflicted with rheumatic fever to her Taos...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.953 ROGERS, MILLICENT BURBaker, Lillian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collector Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 688.2 BAKCox, Caroline.
Summary: Recounts more than 100 years of design history, accompanied by archive images, fashion photography, and specially commissioned illustrations of period pieces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lark Crafts 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 739.27 COXBowman, Leslie Greene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1990
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 745 BOWAtterbury, Paul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miller's 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.1 ATTClements, Andrew
Summary: "Grace and Ellie have been best friends since second grade. Ellie's always right in the center of things -- and Grace is usually happy to be Ellie's sidekick. But what happens when everything changes? This time it's Grace who suddenly has everyone's attention when she accidentally starts a new fad at school. A fad that has first her class, then her grade, and then the entire school collecting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "It's the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris--broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiance, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost everything, she creates a new identity, a Frenchwoman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Shapiro 2018McNerney, Kathryn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collector Books 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 738.37 MCNSevigny, Melissa L.
Summary: "The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Krause Publications 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.59 BellBurns, Cherie
Summary: Both a history of fine jewelry coming out of Paris in the Golden Age and a tour through the secretive world of high-end, privately-sold jewelry, Diving for Starfish is a stylish detective story with a glittering piece of jewelry at its heart. In the mid 1930s, in the workroom of the famous Parisian jeweler Boivin, a young jewelry designer named Juliette Moutard created one of the most coveted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BUREnglish, Charlie
Summary: "This is a tragedy that begins in the halls of psychiatry and modern art and ends in the Nazis' first gas chambers. In the early 1920s, Hans Prinzhorn, a psychiatrist and aesthete, sought insight from the art of mental patients such as Franz Buhler. Buhler was a brilliant, well-known ironworker until his schizophrenia diagnosis, and his work was compared to that of Munch and Duhrer. Prinzhorn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700.943 ENGCox, Caroline
Summary: "Since the early 20th century, city sidewalks have become runways where idiosyncratic modes of dressing are presented, consumed, and exported. Their messages include resistance, solidarity, subversion, social transformation, or musical affiliation, and a group of like-minded individuals can create a powerful sartorial force. Organized by continent and with 600 color images, The World Atlas of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: published in association with Yale University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391 COXWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: Traces legal clerk Arturo Schomburg's efforts to curate a collection of African books, letters, music, and art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SCHKrohn, Katherine E.
Summary: Looks at the different modes of dress in the American West from the 1840s to the 1890s, examining the clothing and accessories of Native Americans, early pioneers, and the men and women of different social classes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-first Century Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 391.00973 KROSummary: In 1925 Luigi Pirandello brought his troupe to England as part of a worldwide tour. This program re-creates one day in London as "The Einstein of the Theater" watches his plays and, away from the footlights, confronts the paradoxical nature of his life. Portions of Six Characters in Search of an Author; Henry IV; Right You Are, If You Think You Are; and The Rules of the Game are meticulously...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Behnke, Alison.
Summary: Looks at the different modes of dress in America in the mid twentieth century, from every day clothes to high fashion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2012