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Fancy costumes: scrapbook, approximately 1920-1932

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Title
Fancy costumes: scrapbook, approximately 1920-1932
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."
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.
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b20600712
RLIN/OCLC: 909913944
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): b4234df0-0bac-0133-d026-58d385a7bbd0
Rights Statement
The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Item timeline of events

  • 1920: Created (Approximate)
  • 2015: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Fancy costumes" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1920 - 1932. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ba0adde0-0bac-0133-9d7c-58d385a7bbd0

Chicago/Turabian Format

Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Fancy costumes" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 24, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ba0adde0-0bac-0133-9d7c-58d385a7bbd0

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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. (1920 - 1932). Fancy costumes Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ba0adde0-0bac-0133-9d7c-58d385a7bbd0

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Fancy costumes