The Federal Theatre Project was the largest and most ambitious effort mounted by the Federal Government to organize and produce theater events. It was an effort of the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to provide work for unemployed professionals in the theater during the Great Depression which followed the stock market crash of October 1929. The Federal Theatre Project was one of four (subsequently five) arts-related projects called Federal Project Number One, established under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during Roosevelt's first term. The WPA was created through Executive Order No. 7034 issued on May 6, 1935.
Mary Merrill (costume_designer)
Created / Published
None, October 1936.
Genre
costume design
Notes
- Front reads: Painted Mask; Wig of Sateen or Crepepaper; Robe made of sateen altered at bottom; Cape of thin lawn, tattered at bottom; cape collar & sleeve..sateen; green gloves; white tights or long hose (Content)
- Includes strips of fabric (Content)