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Houses by Mail: A Guide to Houses from Sears, Roebuck and Company
Katherine Cole Stevenson
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Description for Houses by Mail: A Guide to Houses from Sears, Roebuck and Company
Paperback. It was the American Dream by Mail Order --Smithsonian Americans have ordered from Sears, Roebuck just about everything they have needed for their homes for 100 years--but from 1908 to 1940, some 100,000 people also purchased their houses from this mail-order wizard. Num Pages: 364 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AMK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 674.
It was the American Dream by Mail Order --Smithsonian Americans have ordered from Sears, Roebuck just about everything they have needed for their homes for 100 years--but from 1908 to 1940, some 100,000 people also purchased their houses from this mail-order wizard. Sears ready-to-assemble houses were ordered by mail and shipped by rail wherever a boxcar or two could pull in to unload the meticulously precut lumber and all the materials needed to build an exceptionally sturdy and well-designed house. From Philadelphia, Pa., to Coldwater, Kans., and Cowley, Wyo., Sears put its guarantee on quality bungalows, colonials and Cape Cods, ... Read more
It was the American Dream by Mail Order --Smithsonian Americans have ordered from Sears, Roebuck just about everything they have needed for their homes for 100 years--but from 1908 to 1940, some 100,000 people also purchased their houses from this mail-order wizard. Sears ready-to-assemble houses were ordered by mail and shipped by rail wherever a boxcar or two could pull in to unload the meticulously precut lumber and all the materials needed to build an exceptionally sturdy and well-designed house. From Philadelphia, Pa., to Coldwater, Kans., and Cowley, Wyo., Sears put its guarantee on quality bungalows, colonials and Cape Cods, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Wiley United States
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780471143949
SKU
V9780471143949
Shipping Time
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About Katherine Cole Stevenson
Katherine Cole Stevenson is the author of Houses by Mail: A Guide to Houses from Sears, Roebuck and Company, published by Wiley. H. Ward Jandl is the author of Houses by Mail: A Guide to Houses from Sears, Roebuck and Company, published by Wiley.
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