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- Creator
- Cracraft, Tom Adrian, d.1963
- Call number
- *T-Vim 2010-055
- Physical description
- 3 boxes (60 drawings); 37 sketches; 17 blueprints; 2 ceramic tiles
- Preferred Citation
- Tom Adrian Cracraft designs, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Billy Rose Theatre Division
- Access to materials
- Some collections held by the Dance, Music, Recorded Sound, and Theatre Divisions at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts are held off-site and must be requested in advance. Please check the collection records in the NYPL's online catalog for detailed location information. For general guidance about requesting offsite materials, please consult: https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/lpa/requesting-archival-materials
Set designer Tom Adrian Cracraft designed settings for several Broadway plays in the 1930s and 1940s, and later for Hollywood, where he also served as head of the scenic art department at Columbia Pictures. Tom Adrian Cracraft died in Los Angeles in 1963 at the age of 58. His credits on Broadway include the revivals of The Petrified Forest (1943) and Goodbye Again (1943). Set designs for Broadway shows from 1932-1936, including color designs on illustration board, pencil designs, sketches, elevations and ground plans on tracing paper, and blueprints. The collection also includes 2 ceramic tiles, a cartoon by T.A. Cracraft, and a caricature of him by Betancourt.
Using the collection
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