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- Creator
- MacGeachy, Cora
- Call number
- *T-Vim 2015-011
- Physical description
- 1 volume
- Preferred Citation
- Fancy costumes : scrapbook, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Billy Rose Theatre Division
- Location
- *T-Vim 2015-011
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Includes more than 300 sketches of costume designs for circa 1920s New York theatrical productions, including the Ziegfeld Follies, the Ziegfeld Midnight Frolics, George White's Scandals, and George M. Cohan's The Merry Malones. Primarily showing female performers, many designs are identified by title or description. Images are generally in graphite, with some in colored pencil and gouache. The scrapbook also contains numerous examples of croquis or blank figure templates.
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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