THTR 363: Beginning Costume Development and Analysis: Images in Books & eBooks

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)

Books in these locations in the library are likely to contain many images:

• Children's Literature
• Oversize

Use broad search terms, such as:

Clothing

Fashion

Instead of searching for specific clothing items:

Hoop skirts

Ankle boots

When searching for synonyms, OR must be capitalized:

example: Clothing OR fashion

To search by century:

Use numbers:19th century instead of words: nineteenth century

-or-

Search by the name for your time period: Elizabethan, Victorian, Restoration, etc