Smithsonian National Museum of American History's online costume collection

[mmcnealy]

Here's a fun new resource, although a bit out of my usual timeframe. :)

Smithsonian National Museum of American History's online costume collection.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/costume/browse.cfm?order=maker

Quite a lot of stuff from pre-1900, with good descriptions and close up pictures, although it unfortunatly does not have line drawings of pattern shapes.