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1er Congrès International d’Histoire du Costume

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front of invitation with printed title and 'Mrs Cook' hand-written in ink

1er Congrès International d’Histoire du Costume

Curator: Jeannetta Cochrane (1882-1957)
Dimensions:
Sheet: 114 × 162 mm (11.4 × 16.2 cm)
Sheet: 272 × 210 mm (27.2 × 21 cm)
Medium: paper, ink
Object number: TH.2023.70.M.1-2
Description.1 invitation to international congress on history of costume
.2-30 presentations at the congress:
• Ellen Andersen (1898–1989) was a Danish museum curator who specialized in folk costumes and the history of textiles)
• Mademoiselle Calberg (associate curator at Musées Royaux d’Art & d’Histoire de Belgique)
• Monsieur J Danvillier (of the faculté de Droit de Toulouse)
• Madame Edle Due Kielland (the first curator of dress and textiles at the Museum of Applied Art in Oslo)
• Docteur Martin Ellehauge (assistant keeper of Tojhusmuseet of Copenhagen)
• Helen Engelstad ((27 May 1908 – 5 March 1989) was a Norwegian author, art historian and educator, the rector of the National Arts and Crafts Teacher's College)
• Agnes Geijer ( (26 October 1898 – 17 July 1989) was a Swedish textile historian and archaeologist)
• Dr Beatrice Jansen (curator and later adjunct-director at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague)
• Monsieur Alfred Kunz (head of dress collections at the Musée Historic Museum of Vienna)
• Dr Torsten Lenk (Director of the Swedish Royal Armory)
• Doris Langley Moore OBE (1902–1989), was one of the first important female fashion historians. She founded the Fashion Museum, Bath (as The Museum of Costume), in 1963.
• Sigrid Müller-Christensen (1904 – 1994) –art historian and textile conservator - Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich)
• John L Nevinson ((1904-1985), Costume historian – V&A)
• Dr Eva Nienholdt (assistant of the Lipperheide Costume Library in Berlin)
• D Sebastião Pessanha ((1892-1975), ethnographer and art critic. Director of the Municipal Museum of Sintra)
• Madame Riitta Pylkkänen (assistant keeper at the National Museum in Helsinki)
• Don Manuel Rocamora (1892-1976), painter, author, collector)
• Dr Leopold Schmidt ((1912-1981), director of the Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art and professor of Folklore Studies)
• Dr Hugo Schneider (curator at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich)
• Monsieur Gustavo de Matos Sequeira (1880-1962), membre des Académies d’Histoire, Nationale des Beaux-Arts et des Sciences de Lisbonne)
• Dr Frithjof van Thienen, (professor at the Amsterdam Rijksacademie voor Beeldende Kunsten)
• Dr Bruno Thomas (Director of the Arms and Armour Collections, Waffensammunlung, Vienna)
• Reverend Fr. Manuel Trens (director Diocesan Museum in Barcelona)
• Jacqueline Tuffal (Diplomée de l’Ecole du Louvre)