I am continuing the free access period to the Library, www.costumelibrary.com until Tuesday night so you can see the latest additions. The passwords for the Library are: Login: cg2003 Password: ccr6972 ************************************************************************************************************* Two big additions were added to the Library this weekend: Addition 1. I have the definitions from the Cole's Dictionary of Dry Goods from the A & B sections online at: A-section: 32 definitions, 10 pages http://www.costumegallery.com/Library/1894/Dictionary/A_index.pdf http://www.costumegallery.com/Library/1894/Dictionary/A_definitions.pdf B-section: 119 definitions, 32 pages http://www.costumegallery.com/Library/1894/Dictionary/B_index.pdf http://www.costumegallery.com/Library/1894/Dictionary/B_definitions.pdf
Cole's is a very thick dictionary published in 1894 to be used chiefly by Dry Goods retailers. To see a general definition of dry goods look at the end of this message. The dictionary is a really good reference. It provides detailed information such as the weaving methods, origin of textile or fashions, pronouncations, etc. This book can be so detailed with the long definitions such as cotton, it has charts with export information by decade for the 19th Century, and even how to plant cotton. The cotton section is 10 pages long, excluding the charts with listings of factories/mills that produced cotton textiles. Those are found on http://www.costumegallery.com/Textiles/ under the cotton heading. All that information came from the Cole's book. This is where this definition website gets temporarily tricky! The index and definitions are separate files. When you go to a term in the index, click on it and the link will take you the definition. Each term is a link but is not underlined. The problem, this links work perfectly in Mozilla/Firefox, but the links do not work properly in Internet Explorer. You can get to the definition file but not the correct definition. A temporary fix is to copy the term from the index, and do a search on the definition page. This works well. To view the pages in both browser's you will need Adobe Reader 8 and ActiveX turned on in your browser. This browser problem made husband's hair grow really gray this past weekend while trying to work this problem. He is determined to figure out the problem this week. When he fixes the problem, all the files will be located at one URL. ************************************************************************************************************* Addition 2. The 1890s ladies slideshow from the Virginia Commonwealth University Fashion Dept. Collection is online. Go to http://www.costumeslideshows.com/ to access the slideshow. This addition so far has 60 photos of 6 fashions. I will be adding more fashions to this section. The addition of the 1890s gives the costumeslideshow site 12 slideshows with 595 photos. _______________________________________________ Definition from the 1894 Cole's Dictionary: Dry Goods: Textile fabrics, and related articles of trade; as, cloth, shawls, wraps, ready-made garments, blankets, ribbons, thread, yarn, hosiery, millinery, etc., in distinction from hardware, groceries, etc. In this sense the term is used almost exclusively in the United States, though not, as generally supposed, a term of American origin. _______________________________________________ Penny Ladnier, Owner, The Costume Gallery Websites www.costumegallery.com www.costumelibrary.com www.costumeclassroom.com www.costumeslideshows.com _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
