Fashion History - Picture Galleries

Early English Costume: Medieval Women's Fashions
A gallery of costume from early English history, showing medieval women's fashions.

Women's Fashions of the 17th Century
In the mid-17th century, Wenceslaus Hollar published this series of engravings depicting the costume of women in England. These images record a contemporary view of the costume of women, a subject which fascinated the artist.

Godey's Lady's Book - Women's Fashions, 1860s Style
Selections of women's fashions from Godey's Lady's Book, the most popular pre-Civil War women's magazine in America.

Civil War Portrait of a Woman
An image of an unidentified woman from the Civil War period, Mathew Brady Studio. About 1860-1865.

Women's Civil War Costumes
Women in Civil War era dresses, at a Civil War reenactment of the Battle of Bull Run, also called First Manassas, August 3-5, 2001.

African American Women - About 1900
African American women in photographs, about 1899-1900, from an album of photographs collected and compiled by W.E.B. Du Bois.

Jane Scrimshaw 1711
19th century engraving after a 17th century portrait of London-born Jane Scrimshaw, reputed to have been born in 1584 and still alive and healthy in 1711.