The Growing Abundance of Finished Goods: 1971-2024 (humanprogress.org) 1 points by throw0101d 1mo ago ↗ HN
[–] RetroTechie 1mo ago ↗ "The 1971 data (i.e., nominal prices of 75 finished goods) came from the 1971 Sears catalog."Is that online somewhere? [–] dredmorbius 1mo ago ↗ Not so far as I can tell, though the Internet Archive may have some individual holdings. (There are other Sears collections however.)Searching author "Sears, Roebuck and Company": <https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Sears%2C+Roebu...>1918, for example: <https://archive.org/details/catalog1918sear>Duke University has an (offline) physical archive, described here:<https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/searscatalogs/pdf> [PDF]
[–] dredmorbius 1mo ago ↗ Not so far as I can tell, though the Internet Archive may have some individual holdings. (There are other Sears collections however.)Searching author "Sears, Roebuck and Company": <https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Sears%2C+Roebu...>1918, for example: <https://archive.org/details/catalog1918sear>Duke University has an (offline) physical archive, described here:<https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/searscatalogs/pdf> [PDF]
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[ 1.1 ms ] story [ 9.0 ms ] threadIs that online somewhere?
Searching author "Sears, Roebuck and Company": <https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Sears%2C+Roebu...>
1918, for example: <https://archive.org/details/catalog1918sear>
Duke University has an (offline) physical archive, described here:
<https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/searscatalogs/pdf> [PDF]