Fancy costumes: scrapbook, approximately 1920-1932

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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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