Fancy costumes: scrapbook, approximately 1920-1932

Collection Data

Description
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.
Names
MacGeachy, Cora (Costume designer)
Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1920 - 1932 (Approximate)
Place: New York, N.Y
Library locations
Billy Rose Theatre Division
Shelf locator: *T-Vim 2015-011
Topics
George White's scandals
Ziegfeld follies
Ziegfeld midnight frolics
Costume design
Genres
Scrapbooks
Costume design drawings
Notes
Acquisition: Purchase, 2015
Physical Description
Extent: 1 volume
Inscribed on inside front cover "Thumbnails / Bits and Pieces / Cora MacGeachy."
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b20600712
RLIN/OCLC: 909913944
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): b4234df0-0bac-0133-d026-58d385a7bbd0
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