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- Creator
- Harris, George W.; Moreton, Marguerite
- Call number
- *T-VIM 2013-104
- Physical description
- 1 box (52 drawings)
- Preferred Citation
- Peter Pan costume designs, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Billy Rose Theatre Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Theatrical designer George W. Harris (George William Harris), was born in Warwick, England in 1878. He designed both sets and costumes for numerous British productions and repertory companies during the early part of the Twentieth century. Harris died in 1929. Actress Marguerite Moreton toured with Peter Pan as Wendy, ca. 1920-1926. Original color costume designs for the 1924 Broadway production of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, by George W. Harris, and costume designs for an unidentified production, possibly London, by Marguerite Moreton, ca. 1924. Includes 52 drawings; there are also separate sheets of descriptive notes for many of Harris' costume designs; Moreton's notes appear below her designs on the boards on which they are mounted.
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Location
Billy Rose Theatre DivisionNew York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498
Third Floor