Lyle,
While you are looking outside the box, might I suggest you keep up your search. Sears' catalogs are all over the place if you look for them besides the internet.
As not-too-long-ago in the 1980s (yes, those good old days) as a real estate appraiser, we had dozens of the ca 1900-1910 Sears catalogs in our arsenal of material. And yes, they also sold farm equipment--and lots of it, with photographs and prices.
This brings me to an important point: not everything can be conveniently be found on the internet in the comfort of our own home. Old fashioned research still applies.
Best of luck in this endeavor. It does sound very interesting.
Craig Kilby
Lancaster, VA
On Aug 30, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Lyle E. Browning wrote:
> With the usual apologies for cross-posting, the search for COMPILED lists of prices of goods and commodities produced a flood of pointers toward the sources of raw data but nothing that anyone mentioned relating to data already compiled.
>
> Going outside the archaeological box, there may be folks in the economic history venues who have done so, but it's early days yet as even they point me to sources rather than compilations. As far as farm equipment goes, even the manufacturer's archivists (where they exist) wish they had such a list of their own products. For instance, Sears tossed all of their info on their kit houses, this being done by an earlier archivist idiot to the chagrin of the later non-idiots who have been trying to recompile the info.
>
> Bottom line is that if anyone is interested, and if I live long enough to get the data compiled, then I will revisit the lists and have it available as it seems to me that pricing is a rather valuable component of contextual exploration and meandering.
>
> Lyle Browning, RPA
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