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 ...

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.

A family stands on the front porch of their Sears home – a model dubbed “The Westly” in the 1920s catalog – in Raleigh ... Oregon and Washington home in the 1940 U.S. census.

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 ...

There were also fewer people on the West Coast in the years Sears sold mail-order houses. Just shy of 10 million people called California, Oregon and Washington home in the 1940 U.S. census.

catalog albums the week's most popular albums across all genres at least 18 months old and that have fallen below no. 100 on the billboard 200, based on multimetric consumption, blending ...

I am disappointed because when I saw the game’s box back at TantrumCon earlier this year, I thought back to all the years I spent growing up with a Sears, Roebuck & Co. mail order catalog in my ...

For prices as low as $15.95, you could buy a bike from the Sears catalog. Shown here is the 1912 Napoleon bicycle, which ...

Jea Yu has 20+ years of experience as a financial professional. He is the co-founder of Undergroundtrader.com and an author of four books. Sears was once one of the leading names in American retail.

For more than two decades, Sears Home Services has offered home warranty coverage that extends to appliances and home systems. The company offers a 180-day service guarantee and a preventative ...