Costume Design
I love to look through existing fashions to find era-specific inspiration. These are the collections I reference most often for primary source material.
The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan
The Victoria and Albert Museum
Marquis Period Costume Database
Europeana Online Fashion Database
Textile Research Journal Archives
The JFK Library (particularly useful for early 1960’s research)
Visual Design
These are a few of the collections I have had the fortune to visit in person, where I will often start my process of theatric visual research.
Regan Shaw Design 