A color combination chart for layered clothing.

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No. 1221613. A color combination chart for layered clothing, by Yoshiyuki Hagino, 1868.

I just got turned on to the digitized image collections of The New York Public Library. Wow. Six hundred thousand images in all kinds of specialized collections. Menus, charts, maps, photographs, illustrations, advertisements, cigarette cards, diagrams, costumes. I could spend hours in here (I just did).

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No. 468952. Menu cover for the National Wholesale Druggists Association Banquet, 1900.

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No. 1221643. An illustration of horses. Yoshiyuki Hagino, 1908.

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No. 96883. Prismes 17. E. A. Seguy, 1931.

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No. 473220. Menu, Portland, ME, 1908.


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