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Women-owned business enterprises

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

André and Creators Studios fashion drawings

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0011-01
Summary

André and Creators Studios were Seventh Avenue fashion firms that marketed their designs to clothing manufacturers by subscription. In the mid-1970s Pearl Alexander Lipman, André's co-owner and designer since the 1930s, retired, and André's design drawings were sold to Creators Studios. The collection consists of design reproductions created and distributed by the two companies between 1937 and 1972.

Dates: 1937 - 1972

Bernard Design International renderings

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0003-01
Summary

In 1960, Bess Bernard established her own company, Bernard Design International, Ltd., specializing in interior design projects for commercial and residential spaces. The collection (1960s-1980s) consists of forty-two watercolor and pencil renderings produced by various artists for Bernard Design International.

Dates: 1960s-1980s

Dorothy Haon and Marion Haon papers

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0024-01
Abstract

Dorothy Haon (1898-1995) attended the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later, Parsons School of Design) in 1923-1924, and went on to careers in fashion design and merchandising. The collection, which spans the late 1930s through the 1950s, includes working sketches and notes, cloth patterns, fabric samples, and business records. Also included is work by Dorothy's sister, Marion Haon.

Dates: 1938 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1955

Eleanor Horst interior decoration photographs and renderings

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0026-01
Summary

After graduating from the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later, Parsons School of Design) in 1936, Eleanor Horst (1892-1995) led a long career as an interior decorator. The collection includes photographs and slides of Horst projects, as well as numerous renderings of Horst designs, several by fellow Parsons graduate Lyman Martin.

Dates: 1930s - 1997

Jessica Rummel interior decoration working files

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0084
Abstract Ranging from the 1920s through the 1960s, this collection consists of files Jessica Rummel kept for her New York City-based interior decoration business, which operated during at least part of this period as Harding & Rummel, Inc. The files, which Rummel arranged, include small drawings, watercolors, site plans, and tracings of decorative elements, furniture, textiles, and interior layouts produced by Rummel in the course of her business. The collection also includes vendor...
Dates: 1920s - 1960s

Margaret Hodge Company project files

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0049
Summary

After graduating from Parsons School of Design in 1945, Margaret Hodge became director of fashion marketing at Vogue, and in 1967 formed her own fashion publicity firm. Hodge led various marketing campaigns integrating the fashion of Hollywood films. The collection mainly consists of Hollywood promotional material, including publicity photographs, press kits, announcements and tear sheets. Most of the material was produced from 1962 to 1976.

Dates: 1945 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1962 - 1976