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- Edison Kinetoscope Film, "The Butterfly Dance," 1894-1895 -
- 1894 - 1895
- Collections - Artifact
Edison Kinetoscope Film, "The Butterfly Dance," 1894-1895
- "The Gibson Bathing Girl," 1907 - Charles Dana Gibson's illustrations of beautiful, independent young women reflected and helped define a new ideal of American femininity in the 1890s and early 1900s. These popular images, known collectively as "the Gibson Girl," became a cultural phenomenon referenced in fashion and entertainment. A powerful marketing tool, the widely imitated Gibson Girl proliferated in advertisements and on product packaging.
- 1907
- Collections - Artifact
"The Gibson Bathing Girl," 1907
Charles Dana Gibson's illustrations of beautiful, independent young women reflected and helped define a new ideal of American femininity in the 1890s and early 1900s. These popular images, known collectively as "the Gibson Girl," became a cultural phenomenon referenced in fashion and entertainment. A powerful marketing tool, the widely imitated Gibson Girl proliferated in advertisements and on product packaging.