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The New York Times is reporting (free registration required) that the Brooklyn Museum has recieved a Mellon grant to catalog its huge (70,000+ pieces) costume collection.

For the first time in the collection's history, a detailed record of all its pieces will be created, with a digital image of each dress, purse, scarf, shoe, hat, earring and brooch. Four thousand of the most important pieces will be photographed at high resolution and at some point made available for viewing online by scholars, the Mellon Foundation said.