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Here are some books in the Cook Memorial Public Library that have information about mail order houses.

117 house designs of the twenties (reprint edition of the Gordon-Van Tine Co's 1923 catalog). Philadelphia : Athenaeum ; New York : Dover, 1992.

Aladdin Company. Aladdin "built in a day" house catalog, 1917. New York : Dover Publications, 1995.

Schweitzer, Robert. America's favorite homes : mail-order catalogues as a guide to popular early 20th-century houses. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1990.

Sears, Roebuck and Co. Sears, Roebuck home builder's catalog : the complete illustrated 1910 edition. New York : Dover Publications, 1990.

Sears, Roebuck and Company. Small houses of the twenties : the Sears, Roebuck 1926 house catalog : an unabridged reprint. Philadelphia : Athenaeum of Philadelphia ; New York : Dover, 1991.

Stevenson, Katherine Cole. Houses by mail: a guide to houses by Sears, Roebuck and Company. Washington, D. C.: Preservation Press, 1986.

Thornton, Rosemary Fuller. The houses that Sears built: everything you ever wanted to know about Sears catalog homes. Alton, Illinois: Gentle Beam Publications, 2002.

 

 

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