This year's Sears Wish Book is the company's first Christmas catalog since 2011. Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune Wish Book 1982 in Hoffman Estates on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017.

This vintage reproduction of the 1942 Sears Christmas catalog will give you all the warm fuzzies. It’s a great coffee table book that guests who are visiting for the holidays can browse while ...

The heavy Sears catalog kept Americans linked to the latest styles without having to travel to a big city department store. Lula Rae from Wewahitchka, Florida and Tammy Jean from Opp, Alabama ...

The Sears catalog was the way many Americans first started to buy mass-produced goods. Bettmann/Getty Images A Sears, Roebuck and Co. store in El Paso, Texas, circa 1940.

Sears was once the epicenter of all things Christmas. It was in 1933 when Sears issued their very first, very popular Christmas catalog, according to History.com, filled with all the hottest items ...

(1956 Sears fall/winter catalog, courtesy christmas.musetechnical.com) It's possible that some Sears catalogs in the 1950s and 1960s offered animals for sale while others didn't because they were ...

(1956 Sears fall/winter catalog, courtesy christmas.musetechnical.com) It's possible that some Sears catalogs in the 1950s ...