Here are some of the most interesting products that Sears sold nearly 120 years ago. The wonderful world of copywriting before things like “laws” and “morals” is on full display in this 1902 catalog.

Even homes. From 1908 to 1940, customers could pick out their own ready-to-assemble home kit from a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog and have the materials shipped directly to them, primarily by rail.

Chabot can look at contemporary photos from Google Maps or real estate listings, compare them with pictures from old Sears ...

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we ordered it from the Sears catalog,’” Chabot said. “I was intrigued by the concept of people picking out a house from a catalog,” she said. “I love finding these houses and learning ...