| Description | Photocopies of sections of Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter 1938 and Spring/Summer 1940 catalogues from Sears-Roebuck, American department store. Organised into folders by women's, men's, or children's clothes or accessories and fabrics. Post-it notes identify women's clothing [used for costume research]. Includes microfilm copies of Sears-Roebuck catalogues for years 1929-1944, with a letter from Sears-Roebuck to Anthony Frewin, [assistant to Stanley Kubrick], accompanying the microfilm. Also includes a book, Stella Blum (ed.), 'Everyday Fashions of the Thirties As Pictured in Sears Catalogs', Dover Publications Inc., New York, 1986, with post-it notes identifying individual pictures.
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