I’ve been working on assigning dates to Detachable Starched Collars I own with information I’ve found through advertisements in Newspapers.com , Patent Records, clipped ads for sale on eBay, etc but was looking for more. Now I have run into some online copyright expired books and magazines that I think may help with doing this also. Many later collars have a lot of information about brand names, place of origin and manufacturing company names printed on the inside that help with this, and these books seem like they may be useful for narrowing down dates on collars by tracking the history of the name changes in the companies. Collar companies in the US were constantly eating one another, combining, breaking apart and vanishing through the whole second half of the 19th Century and first half of the 20th Century. Cluett for example went through all sorts of changes that may help date their collars. Some parts of these books seem to track a few of the dates of these mutations. If there is someone with better obsessive compulsive genes for working on forming this into cheat sheets and databases of collar names and dates faster, feel free to try. Meanwhile, if you are looking to “date” your own collars this is a good place to start.

• HathiTrust – The City of Troy and its Vicinity 1876 Arthur James Weise
• The Clothier and Furnisher at HathiTrust Magazine Volumes from 1882-1926
• Troy’s one hundred years, 1789-1889 Arthur James Weise
• The Clothier’s and Haberdasher’s Weekly at HathiTrust
  Magazine volumes from 1892-1901
• The Clothier and Furnisher 1896 [Magazine] Geo. N. Lowrey Co.
• The Clothier and Furnisher 1904 [Magazine] Geo. N Lowrey Co.
• Men’s Wear at HathiTrust Magazine volumes 1905-1909
• Men’s Wear 1907 [Magazine] Fairchild Co.
• Fairchild’s Men’s Wear Directory 1907 [New York]
• Men’s Wear 1909 [Magazine] Fairchild Co.
• Men’s Wear 1910 [Magazine] Fairchild Co.
• The Clothier and Furnisher 1910 [Magazine] Geo. N Lowrey Co.
• The Shirt and Collar Industries 1916 Dept of Commerce US Govt Printing Office
• The Haberdasher 1921 [Magazine] The Haberdasher Co.
• The Haberdasher 1922 [Magazine] The Haberdasher Co.

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