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Remembering the Sears Roebuck Catalog

Published on: November 4, 2018Date revised: March 26, 2020

Sears 1902 Catalog - Farm Implements

The Sears Roebuck catalog was the shopping equivalent of Amazon.com for most of the 20th century, especially in rural America, which did not have easy access to brick-and-mortar department stores.