Sears, Roebuck Home Builder's Catalog (eBook)

Roebuck and Co. Sears (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
176 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-13893-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Reprint of rare original catalog includes huge illustrated selection of building materials, fixtures and trimmings, complete with descriptions, specifications, and prices. Hundreds of black-and-white illustrations.

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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.

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.9.2012
• Zusatzinfo: hundreds of illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 210 x 210 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Schlagworte: 1890s • 1897 • 1910's • America • Americana • ammo • Antique • bathtubs • books on 1890s • books on americanas • books on ammos • books on antiques • books on bathtubs • books on brochures • books on buggies • books on busts • books on carriages • books on cast irons • books on catalogues • books on coffee tables • books on complexions • books on consumers • books on conversation pieces • books on craftsmen • books on cures • books on fixtures • books on glasswares • books on hats • books on inflations • books on mails • books on modern homes • books on montgomery wards • books on outhouses • books on patent medicines • books on plumbings • books on prices • books on products • books on replicas • books on reproductions • books on stoves • books on suits • brochures • buggies • Bust • carriages • cast iron • catalogues • coffee table • complexion • consumer • Conversation Piece • craftsman • cures • Electrical • Fixtures • glassware • hats • Inflation • lead pipe • Mail • modern homes • Montgomery Ward • old-timey • outhouse • patent medicines • Plumbing • Plunger • Prices • Products • remodel • Remodeling • Replica • Reprint • reprinted • reprinting • Reproduction • Stove • Suits
• ISBN-10: 0-486-13893-3 / 0486138933
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-13893-0 / 9780486138930