Pauline Trigere: Fifty years of American fashion entrepreneurship and design: Kent State University

FAIN: PW-290532-23

Kent State University (Kent, OH 44242-0001)
Virginia A. Hall (Project Director: July 2022 to present)

The digitization of 106 fashion illustration books dating from 1944 to 1994 and 226 pressbooks dating from 1942 to 1992 by designer Pauline Trigère (1908–2002)

Kent State University Libraries anticipate the following project "Pauline Trigere: Fifty years of American fashion entrepreneurship and design: Kent State University" in which they propose to digitize and make available the design archives and pressbooks of Pauline Trigère, an important fashion designer from the 20th century. The digitization of the Trigère papers would allow researchers in material culture and consumer studies and historians in dress, design, and business to have ready access to the life’s work of this important twentieth century designer and to study the way her work was covered, promoted and viewed in the context of the time. The Trigère papers provide content that is both deep and rich in terms of its time span and its ability to illuminate the work of an important individual designer working in the American fashion industry during a period of intense change and cultural and economic ascendency.[edited by staff]

Media Coverage

Scanning the Past: Library to Digitize Fashion Sketchbooks of Acclaimed Designer: Grant allows for purchase of high-resolution scanner for preservation work (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Lisa Abraham
Publication: Kent State Today
Date: 10/11/2023
Abstract: Article highlighting the grant, purchase of a new scanner and the fashion designer
URL: https://www.kent.edu/today/news/scanning-past-library-digitize-fashion-sketchbooks-acclaimed-designer

Press release (Media Coverage)
Publication: Kent State University Libraries News
Date: 11/20/2023
URL: https://www.library.kent.edu/news/2023-11-20/kent-state-university-libraries-awarded-neh-grant-digitize-materials-renowned

Associated Products

Digitizing the Pauline Trigère Fashion Collection (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Digitizing the Pauline Trigère Fashion Collection
Abstract: Katie Gable & Eve Fenn, iSchool graduate students, Kent State University. Gable and Fenn will share details on the NEH-funded digitization project, Pauline Trigère: Fifty years of American Fashion Entrepreneurship and Design, at Kent State University (https://oaks.kent.edu/trigere). Included will be insights on digitization and creating descriptive metadata of Trigère’s sketchbooks and scrapbooks.
Author: Katie Gable
Author: Eve Fenn
Date: 11/13/2024
Location: Virtual
Primary URL: https://video.kent.edu/media/November+OhioDIG+meeting/1_t6v58xlb
Primary URL Description: Recording of the November OhioDIG meeting. The Trigere presentation that mentioned the NEH grant is the third presentation in the recording.
Secondary URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E1EDIHQaiAVoYHG8fVpT8nIHw-1wDmwx/view?usp=sharing
Secondary URL Description: Slides from the presentation

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