Leafing through a Sears catalog, circling what you want ... bell bottoms and Nintendos. The "Big Book" catalog ended in 1993, the company said, but other specialty catalogs remained.

Sears’s mail-order catalog, or “Big Book” as it was later known, became the Amazon of the Victorian era (and beyond). Like Amazon, Sears was a crucial cog in the American wheel, a giant of ...

the name of the catalog officially changed to the "Wish Book," per the source. The 1960s saw other big box stores joining the scene, like Walmart and Target, with similar offerings to Sears.

Roughly a fifth of Americans got the Sears catalog at home, a massive, 1,400-page book filled with everything from petticoats and furniture to sinks and medical supplies. The company had been ...

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 ...

Sears was founded in 1893 as a mail-order catalog for rural consumers ... Katz’s 1987 book about the company, “The Big Store.” But by 2018, after 125 years in business, the company had ...