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1908 to 1940 Sears Honor-Bilt Homes Catalog
VLR DVD republication for a complete library of Sears honor bilt Homes. Not only do you receive a 115 page plan portfolio of EVERY home from 1908 to 1940. This DVD also contains 11 (eleven) COMPLETE Sears catalogs!!
You will receive catalogs for 1940 – 1938 – 1932 – 1929 – 1928 – 1926 – 1925 – 1922 – 1920 – 1918 – 1914. This is a wonderful resource for home designs of this era. Sears Catalog Homes (sold as Sears Modern Homes) were ready-to-assemble houses sold through mail order by Sears Roebuck and Company, an American retailer. Over 70,000 of these were sold in North America between 1908 and 1940. Shipped via railroad boxcars, these kits included all the materials needed to build an exceptionally sturdy and well designed house. Many were assembled by the new homeowner and friends, relatives, and neighbors, in a fashion similar to the traditional barn-raisings of farming families. Sears helped popularize the latest technology available to house buyers in the early part of the twentieth century. Central heating, indoor plumbing, and electricity were all new developments in house design that “Modern Homes” incorporated, although not all of the houses were designed with these conveniences. Central heating, for example, not only improved the livability of houses with little insulation but also improved fire safety, a worry in an era when open flames threatened houses and even entire cities, as in the Great Chicago Fire (1871). As demand decreased, Sears expanded the product line to feature houses that varied in expense to meet the budgets of various buyers. Sears began offering financing plans in the 1920s. However, the company experienced steadily rising payment defaults throughout the Great Depression, resulting in increasing strain for the catalog house program. Over the program’s 32-year history, 447 different house models were offered. The mortgage portion of the program was discontinued in 1934; the entire program ceased altogether in 1940.
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or school projects, all pages are scanned at 300
DPI or more. View directly in Adobe Reader –
perfect for reprinting in newsletters, magazines
or art projects, use as clip art in any graphics
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and image CD-ROM’s are intended to be used on
any computer capable of viewing .jpgs, .tiffs
and .gifs. CD is not intended for DVD Players.
(DVD movies are of course playable on any home
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location. We ship from multiple locations,
CD/DVD’s are shipped immediately, custom vintage
giftware is Special Order, and will ship
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to 14 days production time BEFORE item is
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available on great gift items such as mose pads,
clocks, jewelry and more? Please check out the
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