Sears, Roebuck Home Builder's Catalog: The Complete Illustrated 1910 Edition - Softcover

Sears Roebuck And Co.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486263207 ISBN 13: 9780486263205

Publisher: Dover Publications, 2009

Synopsis

All across America during the great building boom of the early 20th century, one of the most popular sources for home-building materials, fixtures, and trimmings was the Sears, Roebuck catalog for home builders. This fascinating volume, reprinted from a rare surviving edition of that remarkably comprehensive publication, offers a peerless view of how thousands of Americans approached the practicalities and aesthetics of homebuilding in 1910.
A huge selection of materials needed to build and finish an early 20th-century home — lumber, siding, roofing, gable ornaments, interior moldings, oak-veneered front doors, art glass windows, chandeliers, stair balusters, bronze door locks, porcelain-enameled bathtubs, furnaces for hard and soft coal, ornate porch rails and Craftsman china closets among them — are depicted in detailed line drawings with the original advertising copy, specifications, and prices.
Leafing through these pages, it quickly becomes apparent just how many readers — and buyers — this extraordinary book attracted. Many of the products and designs are still very much a part of the American landscape, easily recognizable in nearly every community in America today. Students and enthusiasts of American home and home-product design will find this unique publication an authentic and reliable sourcebook of early 20th-century Americana. Anyone interested in renovating houses of this era will find it indispensable.

About this title

About the Author

A self-proclaimed "mirror of our times, recording for future historians today's desires, habits, customs, and mode of living," the Sears catalog debuted in 1888.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486263207
• ISBN 13: 9780486263205
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176