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- Pant & Skirt Hangers, 2003 - Starting in the early 1980s--and already established as an internationally recognized architect--Michael Graves began to pursue a parallel career as a product designer. Over the following three and a half decades he and his collaborators designed everything from humble household goods to limited edition luxury items for clients as diverse as Steuben, Alessi, Target, J. C. Penney, and Disney.
- 2003
- Collections - Artifact
Pant & Skirt Hangers, 2003
Starting in the early 1980s--and already established as an internationally recognized architect--Michael Graves began to pursue a parallel career as a product designer. Over the following three and a half decades he and his collaborators designed everything from humble household goods to limited edition luxury items for clients as diverse as Steuben, Alessi, Target, J. C. Penney, and Disney.
- Earle & Eames Trade Catalog, "Notice to Manufacturers: Earle & Eames Now Manufacturing all Kinds of Cotton and Wool Card Clothing," 1846 -
- 1846
- Collections - Artifact
Earle & Eames Trade Catalog, "Notice to Manufacturers: Earle & Eames Now Manufacturing all Kinds of Cotton and Wool Card Clothing," 1846
- Cheryl and Jack Krygier at Their Wedding, Martha-Mary Chapel, Greenfield Village, 1973 -
- 1973
- Collections - Artifact
Cheryl and Jack Krygier at Their Wedding, Martha-Mary Chapel, Greenfield Village, 1973
- Michael Endelman, Dressed for His Bar Mitzvah, 1989 -
- April 01, 1989
- Collections - Artifact
Michael Endelman, Dressed for His Bar Mitzvah, 1989
- The Endelman Family at the Time of Michael Endelman's Bar Mitzvah, 1989 -
- April 01, 1989
- Collections - Artifact
The Endelman Family at the Time of Michael Endelman's Bar Mitzvah, 1989
- Miniature Catalogue of the "Domestic" Paper Fashions, for the Autumn of 1876 -
- 1876
- Collections - Artifact
Miniature Catalogue of the "Domestic" Paper Fashions, for the Autumn of 1876
- Weaving You Can Wear, 1973 -
- 1973
- Collections - Artifact
Weaving You Can Wear, 1973
- Product Label for Valmor Lucky Sweetheart Perfumed Clothes Wash, 1946 - Valmor Product Company, founded in the mid-1920s, sold beauty products to Black Americans. The company's product packaging was designed by Charles Dawson, a successful Black commercial artist whose illustrations of attractive modern Black Americans contributed to a burgeoning culture of positive Black identity. But the company's legacy is complicated--many of its products pushed a white assimilatory ideal, promising effects like skin lightening.
- 1946
- Collections - Artifact
Product Label for Valmor Lucky Sweetheart Perfumed Clothes Wash, 1946
Valmor Product Company, founded in the mid-1920s, sold beauty products to Black Americans. The company's product packaging was designed by Charles Dawson, a successful Black commercial artist whose illustrations of attractive modern Black Americans contributed to a burgeoning culture of positive Black identity. But the company's legacy is complicated--many of its products pushed a white assimilatory ideal, promising effects like skin lightening.
- Indigenous Man in Feathered Headdress, circa 1925 -
- circa 1925
- Collections - Artifact
Indigenous Man in Feathered Headdress, circa 1925
- Magazine, "Seventeen," August 1999 -
- August 01, 1999
- Collections - Artifact
Magazine, "Seventeen," August 1999