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Try not to think about this being 43 years ago.

JCPenney Fall & Winter 1978 Catalog Cover

Wiggle it. Just a little bit.

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(Spring and Summer 1957 Sears catalog)

They see us rollin’. They hatin’.

(Spring and Summer 1957 Montgomery Ward catalog)

The technology of yesterday, today.

found in a Spiegel Holiday 1988 catalog
found in a Spiegel Holiday 1988 catalog

The Fantastic and Troubled History of the Video Phone

Reach out and see somebody.

Telephony with Pictures

See what you’ve been missing.

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Gadzooks! Post-Victorian Fashion!

“Hey! Same outfit!”

A huge Fall and Winter 1902/1903 catalog for Chicago’s Tailor-Made Clothing Co. filled with — so this is where that phrase comes from — fashion plates!

I learned something!

(See tape dispenser for scale. I won this at an auction but still haven’t figured out how to store it because it’s too wide for my plastic bins.)

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Make Asbestos Great Again

The late-1940s Marshall-Wells Company had you covered for all your asbestos needs.

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