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Theater: Costume & Set Design

Costume Resources

Motley Collection of Theatre & Costume Design
Find images of costumes designed by The Motley Group for plays performed in London and on Broadway from 1932 to 1976.

Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear Through the Ages
Call Number: Available online

Theatrical Makeup

The Art of Deception: Theatrical Makeup
A major element of theatre production is the visual presentation of the characters envisioned. In a series of videos, University of Portland Performing and Fine Arts faculty member Jill Hoddick presents the basics on applying theatrical makeup and techniques for specific scenarios and character types.

Books for Visual Inspiration

Use UP Library Search to find books, streaming videos, online resources, journal articles, and much more (Search Tips). Need help? See handouts for Finding Books on the Shelf and Requesting Clark Library and Summit Items online.

Image Resources for Visual Inspiration

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Online collection of images covering art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences. For more information, see: Artstor on JSTOR: Working with images. Restricted to UP students, faculty and staff.

Historic Advertisements for Visual Inspiration

Ad*Access
Created by Duke University, Ad*Access provides an online collection of U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda between 1911 and 1955.

Magazines for Visual Inspiration

Life Magazine:

Saturday Evening Post:

Book Searching Tips

Try searching for:

costume history
clothing history

Tips for searching by time period:

Search by century; use numbers (19th century) instead of words: (nineteenth century)
Search by the name for your time period (Elizabethan, Victorian, Restoration, etc)

Try adding the following words to your search to find books that include images:

Pictorial
Photograph*
Illustration*

The * will help you to find variations of those words (photograph* will find: photograph, photographs, photography)

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