Popular from the early 1900s to the 1940s, thousands of catalog-order homes were advertised. Companies like Sears, Montgomery Ward and The Aladdin Company, based in Bay City, shipped the ready-to ...

On the southwest corner of Chaparral and Peoples in downtown Corpus Christi sits a structure known since the 1930s as the Montgomery Ward building. On June 23, 1934, thousands of people attended ...

The Montgomery Ward catalog pushed quality items that came at a higher cost ... Customers who ordered such a machine received a needle and thread. 1895 Sears Buys Out Roebuck and Partners with Julius ...

The Montgomery Ward administration building and the original catalog house building across the street were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The condo association is ...

The Montgomery Ward administration building and the original catalog house building across the street were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The condo association is ...

In 1939, Robert L. May was working as an in-house advertising copywriter at Montgomery Ward, a Chicago-based department store chain and catalog company. May dreamed of writing the great American ...

“Sears and Montgomery Ward — that’s pretty much where you ... releasing the first catalog in 1887. After selling his business in 1889, Sears partnered with Roebuck again to start another ...

When I was a child, I would line up the Montgomery Ward catalog fabric swatches and dream of what I could create with them. I still do that. Proportion, balance, and good lines are the basis of my ...

Traveling salesman Aaron Montgomery Ward had founded his mail order firm in 1872 in Chicago. Ward and two partners issued their first catalog that year featuring 163 items. By 1883, the Ward ...

That’s the key to the Montgomery Ward warehouse that rose ... It wasn’t the first building that Aaron Ward’s catalog company placed here. It was actually the third—but with 2.1 million ...