This week’s trivia question asked what library resource you could use If you needed to see what the fashionable woman of 1826 was wearing? The answer is LAPL’s own Casey Fashion Plate Collection Index. This collection contains over 6,000 hand colored fashion plates from British and American magazines dating from the 1790s to the 1880s. Part of the Library's "Visual Collections", the images are available for online viewing.
Find it listed alphabetically on LAPL’s Research & Homework page (https://lapl.org/collections-resources/research-and-homework) and access it with your library card. Image is from August 1, 1826
