Costume Collection

The Sag Harbor Historical Museum costume collection contains over three hundred pieces of historical clothing from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The collection includes women’s, men’s, and children’s clothing and accessories and home textiles. While some of the pieces belonged to the Cooper-Boyd-Willey families, the collection also contains donations from local families, such as Judith Long, Karen Hensel, and Miles Anderson. Past trustees such as Barbara Schwartz initiated cataloging the collection and current trustee Mary Jane Marcasiano, with help from interns from New York University’s Costume Studies department, spent 2024 evaluating, cataloging, and preserving the Museum’s clothing collection.

Sag Harbor Summers 1882-1907—The Life of a 19th-century Sag Harbor Woman, told through the Clothing of the Period and her Writings, our summer 2024 exhibition, contained pieces from the collection.

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