Overview
Theatrical costume designs by various designers.
Dates
- Creation: 1914-1978
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.
Extent
2 linear feet (1 box, 4 pf drawers, and 1 ppf drawer)Costume designs in pencil, gouache, ink, watercolors, pastels, and other media for various theatrical shows in Canada, France, and the United States. Designers include Alvin Colt, Daphne Dare, Nataliia Sergeevna Goncharova, John Robert Lloyd, and Peter Rice, among others.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by name of designer.
Physical Location
b, pf, ppf
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Received from various sources at various times. Accession information is given with the item entry.
- Title
- Miscellaneous theatrical costume designs, circa 1914-1978: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou01598
Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
Houghton Library’s Reading Room is free and open to all who wish to use the library’s collections.
Harvard Yard
Harvard University
Cambridge MA 02138 USA
(617) 495-2440
Houghton_Library@harvard.edu