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Pictorial Research & Costumes

Hungarian peasants in native dress.

Hungarian traditional dressing (XIX century). Young peasant woman from Neograd. published on 1831.  Author: Luigi Giarrè (died in 18?) and Vincenzo Stanghi (died on 1860).

Photographs

Warning: finding photographs in the Catalog can be tricky!

Try the suggestions listed below:

  • To find images within books in the Catalog
    • go to the search box and click on "advanced" 
    • enter the topic in the first box limited to "Anywhere in the Record"
    • in the second box enter either "illus." or "ill." (for illustrations) or "Plates" or "col." (for color plates) or "ports." (portrait) also "Anywhere in the Record"

Additional Tips:

  • Subject AND pictorial works
    • ex. Russia AND pictorial works
  • Subject AND Century AND  pictorial works
    • ex. 19th century AND pictorial works
  • To find Illustrated Histories enter:
    • illustrated history of country
  • To see production photographs you could also try:
    • Theatre World is a good place to find images of productions
    • Ref1  PN2277.N5 A17

Locating Images

You can find more image links on the Theatre LibGuide under "Finding Images/Videos"

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