Filed in Shopping Through the Ages

It’s time again to shop through the Sears & Roebuck catalogs.  This time it’s 1907…

As always, I’ll start with the fashions.

The hats, my goodness the hats!“Because I love you” – the complete lover’s guide.I love this desk telephone.This cracks me up.  The smallest kinematograph in the world. “A positive sensation.  By looking through the small eye-piece a perfect picture may be seen.  Ask your friends to keep turning to see additional pictures and as soon as small knob is turned a small spray of water is released and shot into the operator’s eye. 🙂All the Go – Roosevelt Bears!!Motion Picture Machines and Stereopticons.  Look at all of the beautiful things you could see.I think it’s interesting that Sears had a “profit sharing program” where you could earn free items.I just love how easy they make using these washing machines look.  Yeah, right!!Very interesting napkin holders.I thought it was interesting to see what types of magazines were offered in 1907.This poor woman is absolutely buried in books. 🙂The Davis Automatic Morris Chairs – “designed for those who like massiveness and simplicity…”Jewelry tools.I am so glad that I will never need a foot warmer.  Brrr.You could even get club foot shoes in the catalog.  Such selection.Holy water founts.And look at the boy’s football uniform…Join me next time when we shop through 1908.

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It’s that time again! Time to shop through the Sears & Roebuck Catalog.  This time, we’ll be shopping through 1906.

Let’s start with fashion…..

Don’t you just love these bathing suits?  I can’t even imagine trying to swim in that dress.

I just love the huge hats.

There were many different types of dolls available.  Here are a few of them: The “Exceptional Large Size Dolls for the Money” cracks me up.  A Buster Brown doll.  The “Unbreakable Leather Doll” {baby’s friend!} and even an infant talking doll.  I wonder what it sounded like.

These rings are kind of creepy looking…

An automobile MackIntosh – I guess cars were becoming popular and one needed a special coat to ride in one. 🙂I just love this watch, engraved with  your name on it.The new and improved Universal Keyboard!!You really can buy anything at Sears.  Including a cork extension for short legs.Or even an artificial leg – at half price!

I bet that these were a real hit.  A scarf pin that lights up!!Electric insoles for bad circulation and cold feet.Who doesn’t love hot chocolate?  How about a whole “chocolate set”??I’ve seen lockets for necklaces, but this one is on a bracelet.Fun for the kids!  A Mohawk Indian Wigwam.  “Every boy likes to play Indian”.  “Remember, a happy boy makes a happy home. You can make your boy happy by putting him in possession of a wigwam of his own”In every catalog edition, there always seems to be one or two pages that have a bit of color added.  This time it is tan shoes.  For some reason, these remind me of wicked witch shoes.There is also a page on different rug patterns in color.

Not so sure if I’d like to try this electric liniment.  Apparently, it is called that, “because the application produces a feeling similar to the feeling produced by a mild charge of electricity.”  Yikes!I love the many varieties of bookshelves available.  I’d never seen a corner bookshelf before and the revolving ones are so cool!!There were obviously so many different societies during this time period.  Look at all of the different society charms.I always love looking at the different cures that are offered.  Blood builder.  Mexican Headache Cure.  Peruvian Wine of Cocoa.And lastly, you could even order imported palm plants.

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Filed in Agee,Techno-Genealogy

I’m trying out a new widget from FlipSnack and thought I’d share here.

It is FREE and allows you to upload PDFs and share them in a nice, neat widget. {There is also a premium ad-free version}.

I decided to post a PDF file of my great-great grandfather, Ari Austin Agee as an example.  This is just a simple Legacy-created PDF, so it didn’t take me any time to make.

There are different options available – you call allow them to download the PDF.  You can merge all PDFs together.  You can also change the style and size of the widget.

And this is what I love.  You can actually put a number of different files on a cute little bookshelf like this….

With the free version, you can only add 3 books to a shelf – with 15 page each. There aren’t any restrictions if you subscribe to Flipsnack Premium, but the free version works for my purposes.

There are other services on the site as well, including SlideSnack {for PowerPoint}, PollSnack, TubeSnack, etc.

Have you ever used this service before?

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Filed in Heirlooms,Treasure Chest Thursday

This shoebox full of old dollhouse pieces has been sitting in one of our old trunks, not seeing the light of day for years now.   We’ve carried it around from place to place as we’ve moved across the country.

I thought I’d pull it out and take some pictures of these family heirlooms.  I sent pictures to Andy’s mom, so I could get the history on where these came from.

They were actually her toys.  The house that went along with this furniture was stored in the attic and a squirrel munched on it. And the little plastic dolls {which had rubber bands in the joints} broke.  But the wooden furniture is still in great shape!

Since they were in the same box, I thought that maybe these figurines went with the dollhouse furniture, but they didn’t.  My husband’s great-great grandma and great-grandfather gave them to his mom.  They were from their childhood.  I’m not sure how old that makes them, but they’re in wonderful shape.  Aren’t they cute?

And so colorful!

Here you can see some of the furniture in more detail.  The vanities even have little mirrors on them.Do you have any old toys from your childhood?

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