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One of the drawings I did for 1843 magazine (The Economist’s sister magazine). The original home-shopping frenzy: The Sears, Roebuck catalogue was first published a century ago. By 1908 it featured more than 100,000 items, from bicycles to sewing machines. Shoppers could even buy flat-pack houses.