I found an old 1928 Montgomery Ward catalog today.

[Vinca]

It's not worth a whole lot, but what great stuff in it! The toys, especially. There are lots of Effanbee dolls ($1 - $5), trains, pedal cars and a pedal airplane (most expensive $24.50). You could buy an entire bedroom suite for $84.00. There are even precut houses in it starting at $20.00 a month! The clothes are great, too. You could buy everything you need from this thing and almost all of it was made in this country. (I did find a stuffed "growling" bear from Europe for $5.00 - Steiff???) If only I could go on a shopping spree with this catalog . . .

[Stinky The Clown]

1. You should keep it as a reference

The Wards and Sears catalogs were truly reflections of daily life back in the day.

[grasswire]

2. I've been in one of those homes ...

...where everything to build it was ordered from Sears. It was a beautiful old prairie craftsman style home from the early 1900s. Amazing.

[pipoman]

3. They are fun to look at for sure

a lot of them were used up in the outhouse.

I have old wholesale hardware company catalogs which are very good too, they sold all things durable usually 1500-3000 pages.

[zabet]

4. Cool!

What a neat find!