Nine years after Sears Roebuck had begun, they were selling a multitude of items from their catalog. High button ... a stove, a bicycle or a sewing machine. This system worked so well that the ...

Ancestry.com now has the complete collection of Sears, Roebuck and Company catalogs from 1896 to 1993, spring and fall seasons, available for viewing on its website. Comprising more than 250,000 pages ...

In the early ’60s, Sears, Roebuck and Co. (and its iconic catalog) literally was the textbook for retailing in the United States. Called the “Wish Book,” the Sears catalog contained anything ...

It’s not 1939 outside. But this unfortunate date (see above) hasn’t prevented me from perusing, in some detail, the Fall-Winter catalog from Sears, Roebuck and Co. They are perhaps my only ...