Sears offers car insurance for the first time, borrowing the name of a set of tires the company sold in its catalog. Sears retained complete ownership of the Allstate brand until 1993, when it ...

Sears, Roebuck & Co. said it would close two buildings on East Olympic Boulevard in addition to the retail warehouses in East Los Angeles and Montebello the following year. The closures would put ...

A Columbia Gramophone Grand, pictured in a Sears Roebuck catalog from 1902, is shown in this photo from Chicago, Aug. 26, 1948. ... known for outdoor clothing, in 2002 for about $2 billion.

The company was founded as a modest mail-order retailer of watches in the 1880s by Richard W. Sears and Alvah C. Roebuck. Julius Rosenwald, a Chicago clothing ... graced the back of the Sears catalog.

It would be hard to imagine a company as much a part of the American scene as Sears Roebuck & Company. At age 100 it truly has been a part of the cultural history of the nation. To once isolat… ...

At more than 130 years old, Sears is woven into the fabric of American history. As its retail presence and cultural significance decline, we took a look back at the company through its long history.

And you could actually go to the Sears catalog and order an entire house. It would, you know, have 35 windows and 500 gallons of paint and 50 to 100 pounds of nails and instructions to put it all ...

Southern California was just beginning to develop a taste for suburban sprawl in 1923 when an enterprising Venice property owner built a charming Craftsman home using plans and materials purchased ...

For decades, one of the most recognizable return addresses in America was 925 S. Homan Ave. in Chicago, and it’s no wonder. From 1906 to 1987, Sears, Roebuck and Co. shipped the ingredients o… ...