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This folder includes hand written notes which seems to be describing garment styles, fabrics and knits.

This folder contains Xeroxed personal and corporate correspondence, where appropriate original newspaper clippings are attached.

This folder contains advertisements for retailers such as Niemen-Marcus,, Bonwit Teller and Lord & Taylor, as well as for fabric and yarn manufacturers. It includes an advertisement for "Futuramic Oldsmobile" for which McCardell designed a summer ensemble to reflect the design aesthetic of the car and the life style that goes with it.

Personal and corporate correspondence

This folder contains advertisements for retailers such as Lord & Taylor and Julius Garfinckel & Co. as well as for fabric manufacturers and Sanka coffee. It includes many examples of McCardell's sun dresses, stripped dresses and jersey dresses.

This folder contains advertisements of sunglasses and gloves lines McCardell designed, as well as ads for retailers such as Bonwit teller and Niemen-Marcus. In the folder there is also an ad for Chrysler featuring McCardell herself along side designers Clare Potter and Lilly Dache', among others.

This folder contains Xeroxed press releases. Including examples Lord & Taylor, the New York Dress Institute and several radio broadcasts.

This folder contains hand written and typed correspondence addressed to McCardell.

This folder contains personal and corporate correspondence, where appropriate original newspaper clippings are attached. Also in the folder an original Western Union telegram from 1946 congratulating her for winning the Fashion Trades Poll as best sportswear designer of the year.

This folder contains pencil fashion illustrations of mostly day dresses. Some have hand written notes and different versions of details sketches. Most unsigned and all undated.

This folder contains pencil fashion illustrations, mostly of day dresses and knits. Also in the folder are hand written notes of styles and fabrics. Unsigned and undated.

This folder contains Xeroxed programs and invitations to fashion-related events in New York City.

This folder contains photographs of McCardell's designs, several of them have relevant newspaper clippings attached. Also in the folder are pictures of McCardell receiving the Mademoiselle Merit Award, 1943.

Original Photographs

This folder contains pencil fashion illustrations of mostly day dresses and knits, some have detailed hand written notes of style numbers, construction and fabric information. Also in the folder are some pencil sketches of architectural and figure studies. Unsigned and undated.

Programs and events

This folder contains one picture of McCardell at a dinner party.

This folder contains photographs of McCardell herself both privately and in public events. Also in the folders are photographs of Lord & Taylor windows from 1947.

This folder contains original programs and invitations to fashion-related events in New York City.

The collection includes Claire McCardell's sketches and illustrations as a student, as well as sketches, newspaper and magazines clippings, correspondence, advertisements, invitations to fashion-related events and original photographs from her career as a fashion designer.