Sears Roebuck and Co.Besprekingen

Found in MHS Library in bad shape. Had professionally rebound and the original front and back color covers were bound inside. Great source of illustrations, descriptions, and prices for comparison and historical study.

A Midwest Technical publication. Sears catalog no. 9-2912

Reduced reprint.

Reduced reprint.

Reprint. MWTCA, 1984

Reprint.

Had this 1905 Sears catalogue professionally rebound, therefore cover does not match.
Great way to find illustrations, prices, and other information about America's past.

Good for browsing - The good old Days!!!½

Minnie Earl Sears (17 de noviembre de 1873-28 de noviembre de 1933)

Fue una bibliotecaria y editora estadounidense. Fue la creadora de los listados de encabezamientos de materia (LEM) más difundidos para bibliotecas medias, pequeñas y escolares.

Can't say I'll be knitting any of these sweaters soon, but it was fun to loook through these old patterns.
I do appreciate the fact that modern patterns give a LOT more information. These are missing gauge, changes for other sizes, information on measurements... Yes, I could knit from it if I wanted, but having spent a lot of time both adjusting patterns up or down from the sizes given and/or for yarns that give a different gauge, I really prefer it when someone else has done the maths for me.

A lot of it is unexciting clothes etc. but it also has interesting guns, jewelry and oddments

Many eds. Cute period illust.

This 1964 how-to book contains information about: (1) wiring principles and planning, (2) electric service and grounding installation, (3) adding new circuits, (4) adding additional outlets in old homes, (5) new wiring in room additions, (6) connecting switches, receptacles, fixtures and appliances, (7) gathering tools needed for installation, (8) explaining electrical terms, (9) making electrical repairs, and (10) installing outdoor wiring and lighting.

This is one of the first books I bought when we moved into an old house in 1966. There were only four main circuits in the house with screw-base fuses, one of which had a penny in it. The other three fuses were 20 and 30 amp fuses in a box rated for 15 amp circuits. For safety's sake, I did what I could to lower and balance the load on this antique fuse panel.

We eventually persuaded the landlord to split the old circuits and install a larger 100-amp cartridge-fuse panel. This was finally replaced with a 200-amp circuit-breaker panel and new wiring. This book saw me through all of the changes and upgrades.

A Complete Book of Up-to-Date Recipes and Household Hints. Printed by Pennsylvania Farmer in 15 North Front Street, Harrisburg, PA.

One of my all-time favorite books to thumb through. Really not much else I can say, except to register my disappointment that the new edition (from Skyhorse Publishing) doesn't include the wonderfully droll S.J. Perelman introduction from the Chelsea House version.

nice black/white pictures of you were there..you can "bake a sweet cake" but can you sew a fine seam?" If so, take your place among the geniuses of the world, for quiltmaking has again come into its own, is again one of the "fine arts."

Title from spine. Alternate title from cover: "Sears, Roebuck and Co., cheapest supply house on earth, catalogue no. 111". Book claims to be "replica of the antique original", however it includes only selected pages. The publisher also does a large version (2 ¼ by 1 ¾ inches) of the same item, but with the same Merrimack number #2063.

Title from spine. Alternate title from cover: "Sears, Roebuck and Co., cheapest supply house on earth, catalogue no. 111". Book claims to be "replica of the antique original", however it includes only selected pages. Merrimack number 2063. Esther Beamer received it as a gift from "RS" in 1980.

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Facsimile reprint (slightly abridged)

Facsimile reprint

Was on troopship out of Okinawa at time of Hiroshima.

Catalog no. 9-2923

This is an excellent guide for using the Sears products. It is neigh impossible to operate a lot of the tools that are described in this manual without this type of instruction. There are many examples and pictures of tools which show how to work with them.

"...tells just what your storekeeper at home pays for everything he buys and will prevent him from overcharging you on anything you buy from him"