From heroin to houses, Sears had it all. But before the Chicago business became America’s largest ... “Sears, Roebuck and Co.” In 1888, Sears issued his first catalog, a thin mailer that ...

Andrew Mutch, a kit house researcher who maintains a blog devoted to them, has identified 900 in Michigan and is part of a group that's found ... house was a catalog-order Sears, Roebuck and ...

Ryan Forbes was cleaning out his grandmother's house shortly after she died when he came across a 1998 Sears holiday catalog in perfect condition. Upon finding it, Forbes, a writer and illustrator ...

Sears' 1956 spring/summer catalog was the first to feature animals: Sears Roebuck & Co. said today its 1956 spring and summer catalogue … For the first time in any Sears catalogue live Mexican ...

In Sears, Roebuck’s new fall & winter catalogue 250 items were dropped, many ads for accordions, antifreeze, alarm clocks, vacuum bottles, wheelbarrows, etc. were defaced with the legend ...

In 1966, Sears and Roebuck, then America’s most popular ... When the nation was populated mostly by small farms, the company’s catalog was a lifeline to manufactured goods.