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The Growing Abundance of Finished Goods: 1971-2024
- RetroTechie 3mo ago"The 1971 data (i.e., nominal prices of 75 finished goods) came from the 1971 Sears catalog." Is that online somewhere?
- dredmorbius 3mo agoNot so far as I can tell, though the Internet Archive may have some individual holdings. (There are other Sears collections however.) Searching author "Sears, Roebuck and Company": <https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Sears%2C+Roebuck+and+Company%22 https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Sears%2C+Roebu...> 1918, for example: <https://archive.org/details/catalog1918sear https://archive.org/details/catalog1918sear> Duke University has an (offline) physical archive, described here: <https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/searscatalogs/pdf https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/searscatalogs/pdf> [PDF]