Shooting Star Enterprises


Primary Resources
This is a list "in progress"

Butterick Catalogs

Winter 1870-1871	Winter 1871-1872	Spring 1872
Spring 1874	Fall 1874	Spring 1876
Fall 1876	Fall Winter 1876	Fall 1877
Spring 1878	Summer 1879	Spring 1880
Fall 1880	Winter 1880-1881	Spring 1881
Spring 1882	Summer 1883	Winter 1884- 1885
Summer 1885	Autumn 1886	Spring 1891
Spring 1897

Demorest

1870 yearly	1877 yearly	1878 yearly
1883 yearly	1884 yearly	1887 yearly
1889 yearly

Petersons

1851 some monthlies	1857 some monthlies	1859 6 monthlies
1872 yearly	1874 yearly	1876 yearly
1878 monthlies	1879 monthlies	1881 monthlies
1884 monthlies

Godey's
1859 yearly volume

Standard Patterns 1905

19th Century Books
The Dressmaker- Butterick Publishing Co. -1911
School Needlework, Olive Hapgood- 1893
Our Deportment, F.B. Dickerson, -1879,1881
Motherly Talks with Young Housekeepers- Mrs. H.W. Beecher- 1873
Machine Sewing- Singer-1923
Encyclopedia of Garment Making- D.C. Christner- 1885
Dry Cleaner, and Scourer, and Garment Dyer- Brannt- 1911
Talks to Girls - Eleanor Hunter- 1891
1000 Secrets of Rich and Wise Men revealed (recipes!)- C.A. Bogardus- 1898

Photograph Collection
Over two thousand images starting in the 1860's and extending through about 1915

Period Garments
I do NOT just collect - High fashion items, I also am very interested in "everyday" clothing.

Period Dressmaking Systems
Dating from the 1860's to 1912
McDowell, Maude Russel, Diamond Garment Cutter, Standard Rule,


Plus a large library dealing with the 19th and early 20th century clothing