13 Pages Vintage Shakespeare Costume Designs Sketches for 7 Shakespeare Plays

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WHAT A FIND!
Hundreds of Costume Design Sketches — Over a dozen Individual Pages of Costume Plots by
Eaves Costume Company for
7 popular Shakespeare plays. Use them to assist in the classroom, or in putting on productions of these plays, saving you oodles of design time! —
As You Like It -1 page
Henry IV Part I -2 pages
Julius Caesar -1 pages
King Richard II -3 pages (2 shown here, due to photo limit, third one is similar)
Merchant of Venice -2 pages
Midsummer Nights Dream -2 pages
Romeo & Juliet -2 pages
Size is 22" x 17". Condition is amazing, as you can see. These were distributed in the 1960s-70s.
Here's some background info I found on the internet—
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The Eaves Costume Company, founded in 1863, was family-owned and was originally located in lower Manhattan.
The Company moved to 151 W. 46th Street, centrally located in the Theater District. It advertised itself as "The World's Largest Rental Costumers" and rented to universities, community theatres, etc.
The costume plots, or templates, were sent to clients to indicate what a given play or musical might look like using costumes rented from Eaves (later merged with Brooks and became Eaves-Brooks). In some cases the sketches are more or less faithful reproductions of the original Broadway designs. In other cases, they are indicative of what might be pulled from general stock. The plates were drawn by designers who were closely associated with Eaves in the 1960's and 1970's such as Don Foote and John Boyt."