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 ...

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.

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 ...

Nearby is the Five Mile Prairie Schoolhouse, which was built a few blocks north and a few years before the home. It is listed ...

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 ...

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EVER since the turn of the century when the Yellow Press was named after Outcault's Yellow Kid, the war of the comics has been savagely fought. It has been a bitter civil war with parents on one ...

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

Orvis is in a period of business evolution that requires us to think differently. Over the course of our nearly 170-year ...

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 ...