Bloomingdale's Illustrated 1886 Catalog | 
 enlarge | Author: Bloomingdale Brothers
Publisher: Dover Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 586593
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0486257800
Dewey Decimal Number: 380.1450294
EAN: 9780486257808
ASIN: 0486257800
Publication Date: July 3, 1997
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Product Description
Famed merchants' extremely rare catalog depicting about 1,700 products: clothing, housewares, firearms, dry goods, jewelry, more. Invaluable for dating, identifying vintage items. Also, royalty-free graphics for artists, designers. Co-published with Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village.
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 Cool glimpse into the past, relavent to today March 17, 2006
This book offers a revealing glimpse into our commercial culture of consumerism as it was just getting started 120 years ago. It is amazing the things you could buy in 1886! Medicines were marketed to meet every possible insecurity or physical shortcoming. The sale ads are just as persuasive as they are today. A five dollar watch for three dollars! We often do not realize how influential the culture of this era, the Victorian era, was on how we live today.
 If you're studying fashion this is a five star book November 9, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was slightly disappointed with this catalog. I was hoping for more house wares (dishes, sewing machines, porcelain ware etc.) and the prices for these items
If your interest is for Fashion clothing, jewelry, linens etc. this would be a valuable resource.
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