Museum of the City of New York

The Museum of the City of New York will digitize and catalog 400 mid-20th century women's garments from the museum's Costumes and Textiles collection, and selectively clean and stabilize 33 of the most fragile garments prior to digitization. This project will extend the useful life of these holdings for research, exhibition, and public programming, and provide free, online public access for social historians, fashion scholars and enthusiasts, and costume designers. Digital access to garments in this collection, worn by notable New York women and created by celebrated designers, will provide a window into styles and trends of the mid-20th century that spread throughout the world. This project is aligned with the museum's ongoing commitment to preserve, document and make accessible its vast collection of iconographic and material culture objects related to the history of New York City.