Lee Lash Studios designs

id
3692
origination
N/A
date statement
1912-1941 and undated
key date
1912
identifier (local_mss)
22147
org unit
Billy Rose Theatre Division
call number
*T-Vim 2010-031
b-number
b19612766
total components
382
total series
0
max depth
5
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2013-04-01 15:04:50 UTC
updated
2026-01-20 20:49:10 UTC
status note
(missing)
Display Aeon link
true

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unitid
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unittitle
{"value"=>"Lee Lash Studios designs"}
unitdate
{"value"=>"1912-1941", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1912/1941"}
{"value"=>"undated", "type"=>"inclusive"}
physdesc
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"11 boxes (ca. 381 drawings)"}, {"name"=>"physfacet", "value"=>"some col"}, {"name"=>"dimensions", "value"=>"76 x 56 cm. or smaller"}], "supress_display"=>true}
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 boxes (ca. 180 photographs)"}, {"name"=>"physfacet", "value"=>"b&w, some hand-col;"}, {"name"=>"dimensions", "value"=>"26 x 31 cm. or smaller"}], "supress_display"=>true}
date_inclusive_start
1912
date_inclusive_end
1941
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>The Lee Lash Studios were opened in San Francisco in 1892 by Lee Lash and his brother, Samuel Lash. In 1893, the brothers moved their theatrical curtain company to Philadelphia, and in 1898, to New York City--first at Thirtieth Street and Broadway, later changing locations several times over several decades. By 1910, they had built a studio for the painting of their theater curtains at Mount Vernon, N.Y. The firm also designed theatrical productions and constructed those designed by others. Lee Lash retired after the stock market crash in 1929 and had a one-man show of his paintings in 1935 in New York City. Harry J. Kuckuck, who had joined the company in 1892, had owned the studio for twenty years at the time of his death in 1945.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>Original designs for curtains, drops, olios, nightclubs, set designs, parts of set models, and photographs of designs by Lee Lash Studios. Most designs are color on paper or board and are unidentified, although many are numbered. Two of the set designs are for the play Bet your life by Fritz Blocki and Willie Howard (John Golden Theatre, 1937), and for the motion picture Everybody's girl, ca. 1918.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
note
{"value"=>"<p>There is also a 1912 catalog of the company's work, a small number of pencil sketches (some of circus characters), and a German language publication, possibly used for design ideas</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>Some designs are signed by Victor Graziano and Charles Moore Smith</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>A number of the designs have the United Scenic Artists seal stamped on the versos</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
keydate
1912
prefercite
{"value"=>"Lee Lash Studios designs, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library"}
extent_statement
11 boxes (ca. 381 drawings) : some col ; 76 x 56 cm. or smaller. 2 boxes (ca. 180 photographs) : b&w, some hand-col; ; 26 x 31 cm. or smaller
abstract
{"value"=>"The Lee Lash Studios were opened in San Francisco in 1892 by Lee Lash and his brother, Samuel Lash. In 1893, the brothers moved their theatrical curtain company to Philadelphia, and in 1898, to New York City--first at Thirtieth Street and Broadway, later changing locations several times over several decades. By 1910, they had built a studio for the painting of their theater curtains at Mount Vernon, N.Y. The firm also designed theatrical productions and constructed those designed by others. Lee Lash retired after the stock market crash in 1929 and had a one-man show of his paintings in 1935 in New York City. Harry J. Kuckuck, who had joined the company in 1892, had owned the studio for twenty years at the time of his death in 1945. Original designs for curtains, drops, olios, nightclubs, set designs, parts of set models, and photographs of designs by Lee Lash Studios. Most designs are color on paper or board and are unidentified, although many are numbered. Two of the set designs are for the play Bet your life by Fritz Blocki and Willie Howard (John Golden Theatre, 1937), and for the motion picture Everybody's girl, ca. 1918.", "generated"=>true}
date_start
1912
date_end
1941

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