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  • Harmony in dress: The charm of beautiful clothes. Good taste in dress. Dress foundations.

    • Text
    • Scranton, Pa., Woman's institute of domestic arts and sciences [c1924]
    • 1924
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    Text VSM (Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences, Inc., Scranton, Pa. Harmony in dress)Offsite
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  • [By-laws, standing orders and bill of dress of various regiments and companies.

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    • New York, 1834-1871]
    • 1834-1871
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    Text B-10 257Offsite
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  • An Essay on shooting : containing the various methods of forging, boring, and dressing gun barrels ...

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    • London : T. Cadell, 1789.
    • 1789
    • 2 Items

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  • Dressing ourselves / [curated-edited] by Alessandro Guerriero.

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    • Milano : Charta, 2005.
    • 2005
    • 1 Item
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    Text JQF 06-708Schwarzman Building M1 - Art & Architecture Room 300

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  • Dressing up for the carnival / Carol Shields.

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    • New York : Viking, 2000.
    • 2000
    • 1 Item
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    Text PR9199.3.S514 D74 2000Off-site
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  • Popular Roumanian dress / Alexandrina Enachescu-Cantemir ; 1, Wearing apparel from various Roumanian districts ; 140 illustrations accompanied with a word of introduction.

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    • Craiova : Scrisul Romanesc, S.A., [1939]
    • 1939
    • 1 Item
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    Text *MGS-Res.+ (Romanian) 00-1588Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Costume -- fancy dress [graphic].

    • Still image
    • [19--]
    • 19-19
    • 1 Resource

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  • Window dressing for Hermès / Rhian Saadat.

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    • Cardigan [Wales] : Parthian ; [Chester Springs, Pa.] : U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions, 2004.
    • 2004
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    Text PR6119.A23 W56 2004Off-site
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  • My baby with the black dress on [sound recording] / Jay McShann.

    • Audio
    • New York, NY : Chiaroscuro, p1998.
    • 1998-1991
    • 1 Item
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    Audio *LDC 18867 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The art of dress, or, Guide to the toilette : with directions for adapting the various parts of the female costume to the complexion and figure, hints on cosmetics, &c. / embellished with engravings from designs by Frank Howard, Esq.

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    • London : Charles Tilt ..., 1839.
    • 1839
    • 1 Item
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    Text Pforz (Art of dress)Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319

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  • The art of dress, or, Guide to the toilette [electronic resource] : with directions for adapting the various parts of the female costume to the complexion and figure, hints on cosmetics, &c. / embellished with engravings from designs by Frank Howard, Esq.

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    • London : C. Tilt, 1839
    • 1839
    • 1 Resource

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  • The art of dress; or, Guide to the toilette: with directions for adapting the various parts of the female costume to the complexion and figure; hints on cosmetics, &c. Embellished with engravings from designs by Frank Howard esq.

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    • London: C. Tilt, 1839.
    • 1839
  • A celebration service, dress rehearsal, 1997-06-05 [videorecording] / by Meredith Monk.

    • Moving image
    • 1997.
    • 1997-605
    • 1 Item
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    Moving image *MGZIDVD 5-6574Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Mediæval costume and life : a review of their social aspects arranged under various classes and workers with instructions for making numerous types of dress / by Dorothy Hartley ; with an introduction and notes by Francis M. Kelly.

    • Text
    • London : Batsford, 1931.
    • 1931
    • 1 Item
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    Text MMK (Hartley, D. R. Mediaeval costume and life)Schwarzman Building M2 - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Mediæval costume and life ; a review of their social aspects arranged under various classes and workers with instructions for making numerous types of dress / by Dorothy Hartley ...

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    • New York : C. Scribner\u0027s Sons; London : B.T. Batsford, ltd., 1931.
    • 1931
    • 1 Item
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    Text AK4708 H25Off-site
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  • Colour in dress; a manual for ladies on all matters connected with the proper selection and harmonious combination of colours suitable for the various complexions. Based on the indisputable phenomena of colour, by George Ashdown Audsley ...

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    • London, S. Low, Marston and co., ltd., 1912.
    • 1912
    • 1 Item
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    Text VSM (Audsley, G. A. Colour in dress)Offsite
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  • Horsefly dress : poems / Heather Cahoon.

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    • Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2020]
    • 2020-2020
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 21-1563Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Dresses and decorations of the Middle Ages / by Henry Shaw.

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    • London : William Pickering, 1843[i.e. 1840-1843]
    • 1840-1843
    • 2 Items
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    Text Arents BIP+ (Shaw, H. Dresses 1840) 04-185 Parts 1-12Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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    Text Arents BIP+ (Shaw, H. Dresses 1840) 04-185 Parts 13-24Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • Female beauty, as preserved and improved by regimen, cleanliness and dress : and especially by the adaptation, colour and arrangement of dress, as variously influencing the forms, complexion, and expression of each individual, and rendering cosmetic impositions unnecessary / by Mrs. A. Walker ; all that regards regimen and health being furnished by medical friends, and revised by Sir Anthony Carlisle, F.R.S ; illustrated by coloured drawings of heads and figures ; revised and amended by an American editor.

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    • New-York : Scofield and Voorhies, J. & H.G. Langley, [1840].
    • 1840
    • 2 Items
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    Text Stuart 13507Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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    Text VSH (Walker, A. Female beauty)Offsite
  • Female beauty, as preserved and improved by regimen, cleanliness and dress [electronic resource] : and especially by the adaptation, colour and arrangement of dress, as variously influencing the forms, complexion, and expression of each individual, and rendering cosmetic impositions unnecessary / by Mrs. A. Walker ; all that regards regimen and health being furnished by medical friends, and revised by Anthony Carlisle ; illustrated by coloured drawings of heads and figures ; revised and amended by an American editor.

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    • New York : Scofield and Voorhies : J. & H.G. Langley, c1840.
    • 1840
    • 1 Resource

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  • Female beauty, as preserved and improved by regimen, cleanliness and dress; and especially by the adaptation, colour and arangement of dress, as variously influencing the forms, complexion, and expression of each individual, and rendering cosmetic impositions uunecessary, by Mrs. A Walker, all that regards regimen and health being furnished by medical friends, and revised by Sir Anthony Carlisle, illustrated by coloured drawings of heads and figures, revised and amended by an American editor.

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    • London, T. Hurst, 1837.
    • 1837
    • 1 Item
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    Text Pforz (Walker, A. Female beauty)Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319

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  • An essay on shooting: containing the various methods of forging, boring, and dressing gun barrels ... remarks on the properties and action of gunpowder ... the methods of training pointers--and a short description of the game of this country ... The whole interspersed with summary observations on the various subjects of the sport.

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    • London, Printed for T. Cadell, 1791.
    • 1791
    • 1 Item

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    Text ***MYW (Essay on shooting. 1791)Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315

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  • Dressing ourselves / [curated-edited] by Alessandro Guerriero.

    • Text
    • Milano : Charta, 2005.
    • 2005
    • 1 Item
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    Text Off-site
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  • Mediæval costume and life; a review of their social aspects arranged under various classes and workers with instructions for making numerous types of dress, by Dorothy Hartley ...

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    • New York, C. Scribner's Sons; London, B.T. Batsford, ltd., 1931.
    • 1931
    • 1 Item
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    Text YR4 H332Off-site
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  • How to tie salmon flies; a treatise on the methods of tying the various kinds of salmon flies; with illustrated directions, and containing the dressings of forty flies ...

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    • London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., 1892.
    • 1892
    • 1 Item
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    Text 4222.426Off-site
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  • How to tie salmon flies; a treatise on the methods of tying the various kinds of salmon flies; with illustrated directions, and containing the dressings of forty flies ...

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    • London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., 1892.
    • 1892
    • 1 Item
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    Text MYKA (Hale, J. H. How to tie salmon flies)Offsite
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  • Prints depicting costume of and smoking by various ethnic groups [graphic]

    • Still image
    • [ca. 1780-ca. 1876]
    • 1780-1876
  • How to tie salmon flies; a treatise on the methods of tying the various kinds of salmon flies; with illustrated directions, and containing the dressings of forty flies ...

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    • London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., 1892.
    • 1892
    • 1 Item
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    Text 4222.426Off-site
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  • The culture of clothing : dress and fashion in the ancien regime / Daniel Roche ; translated by Jean Birrell.

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    • Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
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    Text GT857 .R6313 1994Off-site
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  • Inside the royal wardrobe : a dress history of Queen Alexandra / Kate Strasdin.

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    • London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
    • 2017-2017
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 18-354Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Select essays [electronic resource] : containing the manner of raising and dressing flax, and hemp ... / collected from the Dictionary of arts and sciences, and from various modern authors.

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    • Philadelphia : Printed by R. Bell, 1777.
    • 1777
    • 1 Resource

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  • Select essays : containing the manner of raising and dressing flax, and hemp ... / collected from the Dictionary of arts and sciences, and from various modern authors.

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    • Philadelphia : Printed, by Robert Bell ..., 1777.
    • 1777
    • 2 Items
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    Text *KD 1777 (Select essays)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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    Text Schlosser 274cSchwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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  • Encyclopedia of dress and textiles in the British Isles c. 450-1450 / [edited by] Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Elizabeth Coatsworth and Maria Hayward.

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    • Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
    • 2012
    • 1 Item
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    Text GT732 .E53 2012gOff-site
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  • Encyclopedia of dress and textiles in the British Isles c. 450-1450 / [edited by] Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Elizabeth Coatsworth and Maria Hayward.

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    • Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
    • 2012
    • 1 Item
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    Text *R-ART GT732 .E54 2012Schwarzman Building - Art Reference Room 300

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  • The burial dress of the Rus' in the upper Volga region (late 10th-13th centuries) / by Iuliia Stepanova.

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    • Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
    • 2017
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 17-6719Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Dressed as in a painting : women and British aestheticism in an age of reform / Kimberly Wahl.

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    • Durham, New Hampshire : University of New Hampshire Press, [2013]
    • 2013
    • 1 Item
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    Text GT737 .W335 2013Off-site
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  • Dress and care of the feet [microform] : showing their natural perfect shape and construction, their present deformed condition, and how flat-foot, distorted toes, and other defects are to be prevented or corrected : with directions for dressing them elegantly yet comfortably, and hints upon various matters relating to the general subject / [by J.L. Peck]

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    • New York : S.R. Wells, 1873, c1871.
    • 1871
    • 1 Item
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    Text *Z 4328 no. 1 no. 1-10Offsite
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  • Shawls, crinolines, filigree : the dress and adornment of the women of New Mexico, 1739 to 1900 / by Carmen Espinosa.

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    • El Paso : Texas Western Press, [1970]
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
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    Text GT617.N6 E8Off-site
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  • Fashioning Brazil : globalization and the representation of Brazilian dress in National Geographic / Elizabeth Kutesko.

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    • London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.
    • 2019-2019
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 19-1689Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Aso ebi : dress, fashion, visual culture, and urban cosmopolitanism in West Africa / Okechukwu Nwafor.

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    • Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2021.
    • 2021
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 22-625Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The wedding dress / Maria McBride Mellinger ; foreword by Barbara Tober.

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    • New York : Random House, c1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
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    Text GT1752 .M33 1993Off-site
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  • The accomplished housekeeper, and universal cook. : Containing all the various branches of cookery; directions for roasting, boiling and made dishes, also for frying, broiling, stewing, mincing, and hashing. The different methods of dressing poultry, game, and fish ... Directions for carving. With a catalogue of the various articles in season every month in the year. / By T. Williams, and the principal cooks at the London and Crown and Anchor taverns.

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    • London : Printed for J. Scatcherd, 1797.
    • 1797
    • 2 Items

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    Text VTI (Williams, T., cook. Accomplished housekeeper...)Offsite
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  • Rules and directions for playing Geographical recreation; or A voyage round the habitable world; new game; exhibiting the manners, customs, and dresses of the various nations of Europe, Asia, Africa and America. To which is appended a synopsis of Geography.

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    • London : Printed for J. Harris, corner of St. Paul's, and J. Wallis, Skinner Street, 1815.
    • 1815
    • 1 Item
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    Text Pforz (Geographical recreation)Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319

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  • The art of dress; or, Guide to the toilette: with directions for adapting the various parts of the female costume to the complexion and figure, hints on cosmetics, &c. Embellished with engravings from designs by Frank Howard, esq.

    • Text
    • London, C. Tilt, 1839.
    • 1839
    • 1 Item
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    Text *ZAN-T3340 reel 153 no. 963-971Offsite
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  • Manual of flax culture : seven prize essays, on the culture of the crop, and on dressing the fibre; with other essays and statements, copious illustrations, and a glossary / all by practical flax-growers, of various parts of the United States, Canada, Ireland and Germany.

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    • New York : Orange Judd, c1865.
    • 1865
    • 1 Item
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    Text Agr 903.26Off-site
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  • Dry fly entomology; a brief description of leading types of natural insects serving as food for trout and grayling, with the 100 best patterns of floating flies and the various methods of dressing them.

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    • London, Vinton & Co., 1897.
    • 1897
    • 1 Item

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    Text MYI (Halford, F. M. Dry fly entomology)Offsite
  • Arab dress : a short history : from the dawn of Islam to modern times / by Yedida Kalfon Stillman ; and edited by Norman A. Stillman.

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    • Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2000.
    • 2000
    • 1 Item
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    Text TECH. St 54 aOff-site
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  • How to dress for every occasion by the Pope / [Daniel Handler and Lisa Brown] ; with original illustration by Sarah "Pinkie" Bennett.

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    • San Francisco, CA : McSweeney's Irregulars, c2005.
    • 2005
    • 1 Item
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    Text PN6231.P63 H36 2005xOff-site
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  • John Maningford, taylor, hosier, and haberdasher, the lower-end of St. James's-Parade, Bath, desires to inform the nobility, gentry, and others, that he carries on the said businesses, in all the various branches, ... [electronic resource].

    • Text
    • Bath : printed by S. Hazard, [1773?]
    • 1773
    • 1 Resource

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  • The burial dress of the Rus' in the upper Volga region (late 10th-13th centuries) / by Iuliia Stepanova.

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    • Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.
    • 2017
    • 1 Item
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    Text DK511.V65 S73 2017Off-site
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