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 ...

Here are some of the most interesting products that Sears sold nearly 120 years ago. The wonderful world of copywriting before things like “laws” and “morals” is on full display in this 1902 catalog.

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.

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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 ...

Chabot can look at contemporary photos from Google Maps or real estate listings, compare them with pictures from old Sears catalogs and quickly know if the house is the real thing. In California ...

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

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

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

The retailer won over patrons with mail-order catalogs by taking advantage of ... The department store chain, founded as Sears, Roebuck and Co. in 1893 and hailed in the 1980s as America’s ...