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