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Historic Costume | Fine and Decorative Arts

Welcome to our Online Collections Database! Below you will find a searchable database showcasing images and information regarding tens of thousands of items in our online collection. Search using search terms, key words, object names, or names of historical figures to locate specific items, or, peruse at random to enjoy the breadth of collections available for view.

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Questions? Contact our Curatorial Department at (585) 294-8240 or email jjohnson@gcv.org. Interested in donating an object to the collections at GCV&M? Click here to learn more. 

7 Formal Corona Headdresses

Object/Artifact

Red armature twined with leafy tendrils. Small violet flowers with accents of white roses. Small pink flowers. Snood covered with ivy, berries, grasses and red buds. Black armature with small ring of pink roses on top and trailing vine of more at center back. Wreath of green spiky leaves trailing white spiky pompoms and yellow grasses. Wreath of white flowers and leaves, and spiky grasses.

2022.35.0353

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Les Modes Parisiennes

1860 - 1865

Paper

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