The Norwood Sash and Door Manufacturing Co. of Ohio was a division of Sears from 1912 to 1945. Cincinnati customers were ...

Known as "The Farmer's Bible" or "The Nation's Wishbook," the Sears, Roebuck catalog became an American institution. When the catalog first came out, mail order was not a new concept, for Montgomery ...

Sears (officially Sears, Roebuck & Company ... It began as a mail order catalog company, and began opening retail locations in 1925. The company gradually declined following prosperity during ...

Even homes. From 1908 to 1940, customers could pick out their own ready-to-assemble home kit from a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog and have the materials shipped directly to them, primarily by rail.

Roebuck into the business ... greatly underserved by traditional retailers. The Sears catalog ultimately grew to over 500 ...

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The story went that Kendall’s first husband Richard Layton died in 1933 at age 23 after an illness. She used insurance money to purchase a house by mail order – from Sears, family was told – that she ...

(SHLD). Its history dates to 1886, when a railroad station agent named Richard Sears began selling gold watches by mail ...

She used insurance money to purchase a house by mail order – from Sears, family was told – that she had built around 1935 at 217 Los Vegas Ave. Her new boyfriend who she would later marry ...

Three Indigenous Americans are among the 10 recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship.