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Reading that Twitter thread got me interested in (at some later time) digging into the minutiae of how the catalogs were designed, produced, and distributed ove
by danso 8y ago
Reading that Twitter thread got me interested in (at some later time) digging into the minutiae of how the catalogs were designed, produced, and distributed over the years. Once again, the Internet Archive does not disappoint, with what looks like a decent collection of scanned catalogs: https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Sears%2C+Roebuck+and+Company%22 https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Sears%2C+R...
edit: Googling for "the history of sears" brings up a site named Sears Archives. I can't tell if it is official or not, but it does seem to be very comprehensive: http://www.searsarchives.com/ http://www.searsarchives.com/