Feeling nostalgic while flipping through newspaper advertisements? Sick of online shopping? Want to reconnect with times-gone-by? Then check out the Archives copy of the Sears, Roebuck and Company: Consumers Guide, Fall 1900.This 1970 reprint of the original catalog gives a firsthand glimpse into life and products from 1900. Some of the items on sale were “Acme Horse Fattening Powder”, “Princess Hair Restorer” and an entire department dedicated to headstones.
Interested in other Sears, Roebuck and Co. Catalogs? Check out these titles!
The Houses that Sears Built: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Sears Catalog Homes by Rosemary Fuller Thornton, Non-Fiction, Call Number 728.37 THO
Small Houses of the Twenties: the Sears, Roebuck 1926 House Catalog: an Unabridged Reprint, Archives, Call Number Q A 728.37 SMA
Sears, Roebuck and Co. Incorporated, 1909 catalog by Sears, Roebuck and Company, Archives, Call Number A 658.872 SEA
1923 Sears, Roebuck Catalogue by Sears, Roebuck and Company, Archives, Call Number A658.872 SEA
Lara, Archives Assistant