To add to the celebration at Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero | Central City Library Fashion Week 2019, we bring to the Real Gold case a wonderfully illustrated fashion magazine for women from the early 1800s.
In this track we hear from Harriet Rogers the Heritage Collections Library Assistant and specialist in costume and fashion textile and history.
The Ladies' Monthly Museum; Or, Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction, later known as simply The Ladies’ Museum, was an English women's periodical published monthly between 1798 and 1832.
The pages of The Ladies’ Museum contained reviews of recent books, music, theatrical, and artistic shows, reports of notable births, deaths, and marriages, royal news, poems, song lyrics, and serialised stories. The latest fashion news from London and Paris was illustrated by two or three hand-coloured plates each month.
Enjoy a page turning view of the plates via Kura Heritage Collections Online: https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/rarebooks/id/1144/rec/13
Available to view in the Real Gold case on Level 2 Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero | Central City Library for the month of September 2019 or ask at any time to view in the Special Collections Reading Room.
The ladies’ museum, new and improved series. Under the especial patronage of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. For the year MDCCCXXXI. Vol. I. January to June. Book | Simpkin and Marshall, Stationers' Court | 1831
Available at Central City Special Collections - Printed (052 L14)
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