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 ...

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

This updated, expanded Craftsman home from Sears was probably built using the 1915 Bandon kit ... Another Craftsman home, this Vallonia model dates to 1930. The expanded three-bedroom house features ...

Sears (officially Sears, Roebuck & Company) is a chain of American department stores. The company was founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in 1886; it was previously based in ...

“Sears houses, it’s kind of become a general catch-all for house kits,” said Bill Burg, a local historian. “And there were ...

For the radio, the 1930s was a golden age. At the start of the decade 12 million American households owned a radio, and by 1939 this total had exploded to more than 28 million. But why was this ...

In its heyday, Sears dominated the US from its headquarters in Chicago, once the country’s tallest tower. The retailer won ...

There was no Amazon Prime in 1924, but you could order a build-it-yourself house from a catalog. Sears Roebuck Gladstone ... lawmakers added the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariffs, ostensibly to help ...