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Goosson (Stephen) papers
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Description
This collection chiefly contains set design drawings by American movie set designer and art director Stephen Goosson (1889-1973) for various films Goosson worked on from the 1920s to the 1940s.
Background
Stephen Goosson (1889-1973) was an American film set designer and art director chiefly from the late 1910s to the 1940s. He was an architect in Detroit, Michigan (1915-1919), before moving to Hollywood to work for Lewis Selznick (1919), Mary Pickford (1920-1921), and Joseph M. Schenck (1921-1925), First National (1925-1927) and then as chief art director for Columbia Pictures (1934-1935, 1944-1948). While at Columbia, he worked on all the Frank Capra productions. In the mid 1940s, he became an oil painter.
Extent
1.75 Linear Feet 1 box and 1 oversize folder
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Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
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