Frank Poole Bevan papers 1914-1971

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Frank Poole Bevan papers 1914-1971

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The Frank Poole Bevan Papers consist of costume designs, set designs, photographs, and other material documenting the work of Frank Poole Bevan. The papers provide evidence of Bevan's career as a designer and faculty member in the Yale School of Drama. The papers illuminate Bevan's creative life and are useful for studying the history of American costume design in the mid twentieth-century.

9.1 linear feet (33 boxes).

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Bevan, Frank Poole, 1903-1976

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Frank Poole Bevan, American costume and set designer, was born on November 9, 1903 to Walter Scott and Daisy May Poole Bevan in Scranton, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Scranton's Central High School (1921), Bevan attended Lafayette College where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1925. Bevan enrolled in the Department of Drama in the Yale School of the Fine Arts (later the Yale School of Drama) in roughly 1927. While a student Bevan worked with producer and director...