99% Invisible

The House that Came in the Mail

Sep 11, 2018

32:11

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99% Invisible - Radio Topia From PRX

02:04

Sears Modern Home Program

01:32

Sears Home Builders

01:32

Introduction

2min

The Houses That Sears Built

2min

The Sears Kid Home

2min

Sears Modern Home Program

2min

The Sears Robot Catalog

2min

Sears Home Builders

2min

Sears Foreclosed on a Home in the Great Depression

2min

The Last Sears Homes

2min

The Rodeza, a Seers Home

2min

10.

The Seers' Home

2min

11.

Elgin's Seers' Homes

2min

12.

What Are the Elgin Seers Homes?

2min

13.

The Seers House Hunters - And 18

1min

14.

Sears and the Adaptive Reuse of Massive Buildings

2min

15.

The History of Sears

2min

16.

The Sears Tower of Chicago

2min

17.

How to Reuse a Million Square Feet in a City?

2min

18.

99% Invisible - Radio Topia From PRX

2min

The Sear & Roebuck Mail Order Catalog was nearly omnipresent in early twentieth century American life. By 1908, one fifth of Americans were subscribers. At its peak, the Sears catalog offered over 100,000 items on 1,400 pages. It weighed four pounds. The Sears catalog tells the tale of a world -- itemized. And starting in 1908, the company that offered America everything began offering what just might be its most audacious product line ever: houses.

The House that Came in the Mail

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