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Clip books

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: To be employed for scrapbooks used for the study of architectural, interior decoration, and period furnishing. Consists of blank books into which one has pasted postcards, clippings, reproductions, and possibly photographs for the purposes of reference and/or study. It is more impersonal than a scrapbook. Term should not be confused with the more commonly employed use of "clip books" within public relations and marketing field to refer to compilations of reviews and articles.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Ethel Dean papers

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0075-01
Summary

The collection includes class notes and a clipbook of decorative styles compiled by Ethel Epstein (who later used the surnames Dean and Evans) when she attended the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later Parsons School of Design) in the Interior Architecture and Decoration Department, around 1925. Also includes textile samples, circa the 1950s, and costume designs for the Broadway play "The Laughing Woman" (1936).

Dates: probably 1925 - circa 1950s