
Vintage Vision
Vintage Vision
The Art of Gazette du Bon Ton
In 1912 Lucien Vogel started a new magazine dedicated to presenting the fashions of the most prominent Parisian design houses in the most luxurious way possible - la …

Summer's Yield
Summer's Yield
Projects from the Summer Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities
Each summer Cornell's Olin Library offers a fellowship program focused on preparing humanists with digital expertise enhancing their abilities to analyze information …

Union-Made: Fashioning America in the Twentieth Century
Union-Made: Fashioning America in the Twentieth Century
This exhibit focuses on the role played by two major American clothing workers’ unions, the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) and the Amalgamated …

Films, Mills, and Poets: Mid-Century Bombay
Films, Mills, and Poets: Mid-Century Bombay
Films, Mills, and Poets: Mid-Century Bombay was an exhibit that was shown at the Carl A. Kroch Library's Asia Collections between September and November 2017, in …

Go Figure: The Fashion Silhouette and the Female Form
Go Figure: The Fashion Silhouette and the Female Form
Go Figure explores perceptions and representations of Euro-American beauty ideals across the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Through outerwear and undergarments, this …

Apples to Cider
Apples to Cider
An Old Industry Takes New Root
Cider - the alcoholic or "hard" variety - was long the favorite drink of the United States, but a variety of factors relegated it to the background for many years. …

Texture
Texture
An eclectic exhibition, indeed. It grew out of a simple and (intentionally) vague prompt: texture. What resulted was a group of students and staff members selecting …

The Biggest Little Fashion City
The Biggest Little Fashion City
Ithaca & Silent Film Style
The Biggest Little Fashion City explored Ithaca’s silent film history through the lens of costume, style, and fashion by chronicling the influence of the actors and …

Unturned Leaves
Unturned Leaves
Early Women in Botanical Illustration
Prior to the 20th century, one of the few paths to scientific relevance for women was the pursuit of botany; a number of women achieved success and recognition through …

Women Empowered: Fashions from the Frontline
Women Empowered: Fashions from the Frontline
WOMEN EMPOWERED: Fashions from the Frontline chronicles how women have strategically and persistently used fashion to empower and uplift. From activists to politicians, …

CHOCOLATE: Food of the Gods
CHOCOLATE: Food of the Gods
Chocolate has been described as being more than a food, less than a drug. This description points to the singular position this wildly popular confection plays in our …

Backyard Revival: American Heritage Poultry
Backyard Revival: American Heritage Poultry
Since they were first domesticated, nearly 10,000 years ago, in South and Southeast Asia, chickens have accompanied human beings everywhere on the planet. When the …

A Buzz about Bees: Four Hundred Years of Bees and Beekeeping
A Buzz about Bees: Four Hundred Years of Bees and Beekeeping
This exhibit features books from the Phillips Beekeeping Collection, a testament to the hard work and vision of one man, the dedication of hundreds of beekeepers and …

FASHION & FEATHERS
FASHION & FEATHERS
FASHION AND FEATHERS explores the complex and nebulous space between inspiration and exploitation. Throughout the exhibition, we have endeavored to identify as many …

Black Excellence: Fashion that Prevails
Black Excellence: Fashion that Prevails
Black Excellence: Fashion that Prevails showcases the work of Black style tastemakers, influencers, and designers. The exhibition is organized thematically around the …

Chinese Traditional Dress
Chinese Traditional Dress
The 10,000-item Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection holds many hidden treasures from several centuries of fashion. An exhibit, “Chinese Traditional Dress and Its …

Do It Yourself, Do It Together
Do It Yourself, Do It Together
Earth Thinking 1970 to Tomorrow
Whole Earth Catalog presented a do-it-yourself approach to environmentalism against a backdrop of widespread pollution in the United States. At the 50th anniversary of …

The Trees of Cornell
The Trees of Cornell
Cornell's trees are at the core of the beauty of the university's campus, but of course they are also so much more. In honor of our woody flora, this exhibit pairs data …

Arachnophilia
Arachnophilia
A Passion for Spiders
Spiders are diverse, fascinating and surprisingly useful to humans. This virtual version of a Mann Gallery exhibit created in collaboration with Dr. Linda S. Rayor …

Selections from the Barazangi Map Collection
Selections from the Barazangi Map Collection
Understanding the Middle East through Geologic Movement
This exhibit features maps donated by Professor Muawia Barazangi, emeritus professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. The maps and images explore …

Engaging Early American History through Mapping
Engaging Early American History through Mapping
HIST 2391 - From Terra Incognita to Territories of Nation-States
History 2391 grew out of a desire to find a new way to expose students to the rich and diverse visual record of Early American history. The seminar engages the rich …

Story/Lines

A. D. White Library Tour
A. D. White Library Tour
A curated tour through the President Andrew Dickson White Library, the historic heart of Cornell's first library, and iconic university landmark. This online exhibition …

Standards for a New Womanhood
Standards for a New Womanhood
Gender, Race, and Expertise
In her 1981 essay, “The Legacies of Slavery: Standards for a New Womanhood,” Angela Y. Davis explained that the 19th century cults of true womanhood and domesticity …

Work Left Unsaid: Performing and Visual Artwork of Spring 2020
Work Left Unsaid: Performing and Visual Artwork of Spring 2020
Artwork Done By Cornell Student Organizations
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, major disruptions and shutdowns to activities on and off campus forced student organizations to continue virtually for the …

Green Armor
Green Armor
Wrap, Protect, Cover, Perform
GREEN ARMOR is a fashion exhibition that explores and celebrates the power of the color green as a form of armor throughout fashion history. Green has a longstanding …

Trash: Rethink and Reclaim
Trash: Rethink and Reclaim
In this exhibition we use trash as a lens to rethink the social constructions of waste, marginalization, and consumption and how we might reclaim these stories through …

In Search of Costumes from Many Lands
In Search of Costumes from Many Lands
This fashion exhibition critically examines the collecting practices of Professor Beulah Blackmore and Mrs. Ruth Sharp who contributed to the development of two …

A Fashionista's Guide to the Galaxy
A Fashionista's Guide to the Galaxy
The Journey Begins
This exhibition is a journey to discover and explore science fiction and its fashion. Through a comprehensive look at the genre of science fiction we have curated an …

Flights of Fancy
Flights of Fancy
Fashion and Function in Circus Performance
The relationship between circus and fashion is one of ebb and flow, inspiration and aspiration: the iconic imagery of circus dress symbolism has long influenced design …

Concealing and Revealing
Concealing and Revealing
The Legacies of American Swimwear
This digital fashion exhibition considers the nuanced social, cultural, and economic implications of swimsuits throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Bathing costumes …

Fashion in Transit
Fashion in Transit
Fashion in Transit explores the relationship between what we wear and how we move. Organized according to forms of fashioned moment - swimming, sliding, walking, …

Bridging Worlds: Buddhist Words and Works
Bridging Worlds: Buddhist Words and Works
This exhibit celebrates the visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Ithaca in October, 2007

Building a Collection: Giok Po Oey and the John M. Echols Collection
Building a Collection: Giok Po Oey and the John M. Echols Collection
Beginning with his hire in 1957, Giok Po Oey (1922-2010) worked tirelessly to build a world-class library collection of publications from and about Southeast Asia. Giok …

Olin @ 50: Inspiration Since 1961
Olin @ 50: Inspiration Since 1961
Half a century ago, life in John M. Olin Library looked very different — but the building itself is a long-standing symbol for generations of Cornellians. The …

Uris Historical Tour
Uris Historical Tour
The University Library building, later renamed Uris Library, opened on October 7, 1891, precisely twenty-three years after classes began at Cornell University. The …