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 ...

TAMAQUA – Jim Hain believes his grandparents, Charles and Catherine Houser, ordered a new house from a Sears, Roebuck & Co ... its mail-order catalog. “The company’s simplistic home designs ...

That started changing after Sears and Roebuck's famous catalog became popular, allowing the firm to grow, while a rival, Montgomery Ward, also expanded. By the 1930s, the U.S. had 130,000 chain ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The nation's healthcare forces mobilized but out of ... a start on their Christmas shopping often began by perusing the Sears catalog and perhaps ventured to malls in search of gifts between ...

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 ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – The state of New York is providing $8.5 million to turn the long-vacant former Sears Roebuck store on Syracuse’s South Side into a semiconductor workforce training hub.