Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sears Catalog Home

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Reason: Fascinating bit of Americana. Reasonably good scan.
Proposed caption: From 1908 to 1940, Sears Roebuck and Company sold ready-to-assemble houses through mail order under the Sears Catalog Homes brand. Model No. 115, pictured here in a catalog advertisement, was sold during the period from 1908 to 1914 at a price of $725.00.
Articles this image appears in: Sears Catalog Home, Architecture of the United States
Creator: Presumably, Sears Roebuck and Company. In the PD because it was first published before January 1, 1923.

Support as nominator Spikebrennan 22:31, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
Oppose Prominent artifacts. CillaИ ♦ XC 00:25, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Support This is ephemera, some minor printing errors and so on are acceptable and typical. Adam Cuerden ^talk 02:33, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
There are visible jpeg artifacts, especially around the text. Is there a better scan and/or can we have the original in png format? MER-C 04:15, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Oppose - For something like this it must be perfect --Childzy ¤ Talk 11:51, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Weak support: I'm willing to ignore the artifact issues due to the unique nature of the picture. A better scan would be great though. --snowolfD4 ^{( talk / @ )} 14:02, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Abstain. One of my earliest uploads. Very encyclopedic, although not the best quality. — BRIAN0918 • 2007-10-02 14:13Z

Could you get a better scan of this by any chance? --snowolfD4 ^{( talk / @ )} 14:24, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

I didn't scan it. It's from an online government source - I think NARA. — BRIAN0918 • 2007-10-03 00:27Z

That would be http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/1908-1914.htm . Unfortunately, all the originals suffer from visible jpeg artifacts. MER-C 03:05, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Oppose. What childzy said. This is not at all unique, as Sears sold thousands and thousands of their building kit books, and modern reproductions of the books have been sold. It would be difficult but not impossible to get a better scan. As a secondary issue, this is just about the least attractive Catalog Home ever sold (compare). I'd really like to see a more interesting/representative image like one of the Craftsman designs. --Dhartung | Talk 08:55, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Support Very nice picture. Govigov 15:28, 6 October 2007 (UTC)govigov

Not promoted MER-C 03:54, 8 October 2007 (UTC)