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Title: Edyth Sparag Studios fashion drawings,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1930s-ca. 1950s
Collection number: MS-P024
Creator:
Edyth Sparag Studios
Extent:
0.4 linear feet (1 box)
Repository:
University of California, Irvine. Library. Special Collections and Archives.
Irvine, California 92623-9557
Abstract: A bound volume of 276 mimeographed fashion drawings created by Edyth Sparag Studios between the late 1930s and early 1950s.
Many of the drawings are hand-colored, and some pages contain original pencil sketches in the margins. The designs, which
include dresses, suits, and evening gowns, provide visual documentation of New York fashion design during the mid-twentieth
century. The drawings illustrate the types of fashion accessories and hair styles common to this period as well.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head of Special Collections and University Archives.
Edyth Sparag Studios Fashion Drawings. MS-P 24. Special Collections and Archives, The UCI Libraries, Irvine, California.
Purchase, April 1997.
Processed by Su Kim Chung in 1998.
Edyth Sparag Studios was located at 1450 Broadway in New York City, N.Y., according to information printed on some of the
drawings.
A bound volume of 276 mimeographed fashion drawings created by Edyth Sparag Studios between the late 1930s and early 1950s.
Many of the drawings are hand-colored, and some pages contain original pencil sketches in the margins. The designs, which
include dresses, suits, and evening gowns, provide visual documentation of New York fashion design during the mid-twentieth
century. The drawings illustrate the types of fashion accessories and hair styles common to this period as well.
A number of pages in the bound volume were flagged with pink index cards containing notations by a previous owner. These index
cards were removed as a preservation measure. A list of the pages flagged and the corresponding notations has been retained
in the collection.
The collection also includes a folder containing three unrelated sketches of male models and a hand-colored plate from
Godey's Lady's Book, which were laid into the bound volume when it was acquired.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Edyth Sparag Studios--Archival resources.
Costume design--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century--Archival resources.
Fashion design drawings