The Historic Costume Collection is a database of books illustrating historic costume in the collections of the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. Current contents and future additions to this site are made possible through a generous endowment of Carnegie Mellon alumna, Carol Chaplin, in honor of her mother Margaret Smith Cushing, a 1927 graduate of the Carnegie Mellon costume economics program. 
Illustration: Portions of the sleeve of a costume constructed and designed by Margaret Smith Cushing. Collection, Carnegie Mellon University Archives.
This December, we are launching a new platform for our unique digital collections.
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