Open Winter 2023

Fashion Through the Pages

Tour Elaine von Bruns’ latest creation, Fashion Through the Pages, an exhibit featuring everything from the big wigs at the courts of Louis XIV and XV in Diderot’s Encyclopédie to Mary Todd Lincoln’s personal dressmaker to dazzling gowns in the color plates of period novels like Pride and Prejudice.

 

See fashions on paper and porcelain, children’s clothing trends in St. Nicholas Magazine, Art Deco cover girls with over-the-top hats, famous top-hatters, a caged corset, a satire of A. A. Milne’s When We Were Very Young, and much more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fashion Through the Pages is free and open to all during the Athenaeum’s regular open hours:
Tuesday – Friday, 1:00–6:00 P.M.
Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 P.M.

 

 

Past Exhibitions:

Salem Confidential

Love for All Seasons

Cosmos: Sand Dollars to Stars

The Grand Tour

The Language of Flowers

Food for Thought

Quinton Oliver Jones (1903-1999)

What Hawthorne Read
from the Collections of the Salem Athenaeum

Elections: Winning the Vote

Celia’s Salon: America’s First Artists’ and Writers‘ Colony

Samuel Hall: Patriot Printer of the Revolution

Early Birds: Portraits by the Fathers of American Ornithology

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