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1923 Sears Roebuck Catalogue: Thrift Book of a Nation

Joseph J. Schroeder, Jr. • Thrift Book of a Nation • 1923

Sears, Roebuck and Co., founded in 1893 in Chicago, began and existed for years a mail order catalogue. (The company didn't begin opening local department stores until 1925.) In addition to the subtitle "Thrift Book of a Nation," the catalogue appealed to the customer's sense of thrift by offering a...