Have You Seen This Kit Schoolhouse?

by | Jan 22, 2013 | Uncategorized | 2 comments

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,...

The Schoolhouse, by Sears Roebuck

by | Jul 30, 2011 | Uncategorized | 1 comment

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...