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 ...

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 ...

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Not long ago, the Sears, Roebuck and Co. mail-order catalog was the ultimate marketplace, much like Amazon is today. You could even ...

Richard Sears began selling watches in 1886. A year later, he opened a Chicago location for catalog sales and hired a watchmaker, Alvah C. Roebuck. The mail-order watch and jewelry company Sears ...

Home buyers had the option to order up a house directly from the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog. In fact, you could purchase a banjo, a top hat, and a home from the same catalog. And while Sears ...

VICTOR, N.Y. — Sears Roebuck and Co. started selling mail-order houses from its specialty catalog — the Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans — in 1908. It is reported that more than ...

A buyer could leaf through a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog, choose a house and mail in the order. In time, a railroad boxcar would chug into town, carrying a ready-to-assemble house — complete ...