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Millia Crotty Davenport (1895–1992) was an American costumer, theater designer, and scholar, known for her 1948 work The Book of Costume. The eldest daughter of biologists Charles and Gertrude Davenport, she married editor Arthur Harold Moss in her early twenties and for a time was editor and publisher of The Quill, a Greenwich Village literary magazine. In 1991 the Costume Society of America established the Millia Davenport Publication Award recognizing excellence in costume scholarship.
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