by Sears Homes | Jan 22, 2013 | Uncategorized |
The very first Sears “Modern Homes” catalog (1908) offered a kit schoolhouse. One year later (1909), the schoolhouse had already disappeared and was never offered again. For reasons I can not fathom, they named this first (and only) schoolhouse,...
by Sears Homes | Jul 30, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Bit by bit, I’ve been donating my vintage catalogs and ephemera from Sears Roebuck to Old Dominion University. In the process of digging through many, many boxes of old specialty catalogs, I discovered this 1926 Sears and Roebuck catalog titled, School Furniture...
by Sears Homes | May 2, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Despite a last-minute plea from desperate Missourians, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the plan to flood 132,000 acres of prime Missouri farmland will go forward. Flooding the farms will spare the tiny town of Cairo, Illinois, population – 2,800. The...
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