Sears offered live animals through its mail-order catalogs from 1956 to 1964. However, versions of those catalogs — possibly including an alleged 1956 Sears Christmas book featured in popular ...

Even homes. From 1908 to 1940, customers could pick out their own ready-to-assemble home kit from a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog and have the materials shipped directly to them, primarily by rail.

Even homes. From 1908 to 1940, customers could pick out their own ready-to-assemble home kit from a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog and have the materials shipped directly to them, primarily by rail.

Shoppers like Jessica and Bryan, a couple who visited the store, recall fond memories of the Sears catalog they would eagerly await each year. "Do you remember that? Circling all the stuff you ...

A family stands on the front porch of their Sears home – a model dubbed “The Westly” in the 1920s catalog – in Raleigh, N.C., in 2011. CHELSEA KELLNER Raleigh News & Observer file “The ...

Roebuck & Co. The sporting arms made under them were featured in the 1908 Sears catalog. Here is a description of the A. J. Aubrey Hammerless Single Barrel shotgun, as written in the folksy style ...

What: This is no ordinary century-old colonial home: It was built in 1923 from a kit ordered through a Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog. Where: The two-story is at 424 19th St. NW in Canton's ...

Roebuck founded a mail-order company. Initially selling watches and jewelry, the Sears catalog quickly became an Amazon for the turn of the last century—selling, among many other things clothing ...