Ming-Ju Sun Garfinckel's Fashion Drawings
name: label: Creator
content: Sun, Ming-ju
label: Names
content: Garfinckel's (Department store)
label: Artist
content: Ambrose, Amie
label: Donor
content: Sun, Ming-ju
topic: label: Topic
content: Fashion merchandising
label: Topic
content: advertising -- Clothing and dress -- 1970-2010
label: Topic
content: advertising -- Clothing trade -- 1970-2010
label: Topic
content: advertising -- Fashion -- 1970-2010
label: Topic
content: Women -- Employment
label: Topic
content: Women in business -- 1970-2010
label: Topic
content: Advertising art -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Costume design
label: Topic
content: Fashion
label: Topic
content: advertising
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated to the Archives Center by Ming-Ju Sun in 2005.
creator: label: Creator
content: Sun, Ming-ju
setName: label: See more items in
content: Ming-Ju Sun Garfinckel's Fashion Drawings
abstract: label: Summary
content: Fashion drawings and the photographic work of Ming-Ju Sun while as an employee of Garfinckel's Department Store and as an independent artist.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ming-Ju Sun arrived in the United States from China in the 1940s. In the early 1970s, she studied fine art, taking classes on the history of costume and textiles as well as Chinese and Japanese history at the University of Maryland.  While earning her graduate degree she worked as a fashion illustrator for the Garfinckel's department store located in Washington, DC.  Beginning in the 1980s, Sun worked as an independent artist creating hand-illustrated paper-doll, sticker, and coloring books for Dover Publishing. Her artwork has been shown in galleries in Washington, DC.


Source: Collecting and Discovering Ming-Ju Sun: Paper-doll Cues to a Family History by Rachel Endoso, December 10, 2014.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Cubic feet (5 boxes, 1 map-folder)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1972-2002, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0897
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Catalogs
label: Type
content: Advertisements
label: Type
content: Tear sheets
label: Type
content: Paper dolls
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged in two series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed by Danleigh H. Kaplan, intern, September 2005; supervised by Vanessa Broussard-Simmons, archivist.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertisements
label: Genre/Form
content: Tear sheets
label: Genre/Form
content: Paper dolls
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Collection consists of the original drawings and photographic work of Ming-Ju Sun as an employee of Garfinckel's Department Store and as an independent artist.  It includes original artwork, newspaper advertisement tear sheets, photographic materials, fashion illustration coloring books, fashion catalogs, and other materials that provide information about the fashion industry and its advertising.  The materials document women's fashions dating from 1972- to 2002.  The collection is a rich resource for advertising art in the 20th century, fashion and costume design, and fashion history.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History


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