Originally Posted by nlerner

The power of the personal archive! About 15 years ago or so, I regularly scanned eBay for Raleigh catalogs though I was much more interested in the 70s and earlier eras, rather than the 80s. I assume this one came my way at that point, but I’ll do some searching among eBay receipts to see if I can figure that out.

In my day job, I’ve done a good deal of archival research, and while I’m involved in several projects to build digital archives (which, of course, have much easier access than paper), there’s still something really cool to me to hold the catalog in my hands, hence, the amassing of what I have (you’ll see that a few of the catalogs on Kurt’s Headbadge site came from me).