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 ...

Ward Jandl wrote in their book, “Houses by Mail: A Guide to Houses from Sears, Roebuck and Company ... Homes and Building Plans,” the first catalog devoted to mail-order homes.

The first documented use of toilet paper ... many Americans began using pages from the Farmers’ Almanac and the Sears, Roebuck and Company catalog. Fun fact: Manufacturers often created holes ...

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He then moved the fledgling R.W. Sears Watch Company to Chicago in 1887 to expand operations. The next year, Sears placed a ...

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 ...

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

Jimmy Carter turned 100 years old on Tuesday. Over the last century, the former president has seen many changes across the ...

In its heyday, Sears dominated the US from its headquarters in Chicago, once the country’s tallest tower. The retailer won over patrons with mail-order catalogs ... as Sears, Roebuck and Co ...

The story went that Kendall’s first husband Richard Layton died ... compare them with pictures from old Sears catalogs and quickly know if the house is the real thing. In California, the answer ...