Long before Amazon and internet shopping, you could buy almost anything from a mail-order catalog. Clothing, furniture, jewelry, toys, plant seeds. Even homes. From 1908 to 1940, customers could pick ...
A century ago, Sears, Roebuck & Co. used to sell everything in its catalogs — clothes, farm machines, and even all of the materials required to build an entire house. And for a while you could even ...
Long before Amazon and internet shopping, you could buy almost anything from a mail-order catalog. Clothing, furniture, jewelry, toys, plant seeds. Even homes. From 1908 to 1940, customers could pick ...
TAMAQUA – Jim Hain believes his grandparents, Charles and Catherine Houser, ordered a new house from a Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog in the late 1920s or early 1930s. “The house was complete, and they ...
For decades, the Sears Roebuck and Co. building was a fixture in Bergen County, known for its art-deco style and soaring 105-foot tower bearing the name of the once-iconic retailer. But, in recent ...
Reprint. Originally published under title: Modern homes. Chicago : Sears, Roebuck and Co., 1913. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source ...
Before Walmart and long before anyone dreamed of Amazon’s “Prime Day,” there was Sears, Roebuck & Co. The company’s famous catalog brought everything from washing machines to entire mail-order houses ...
Sears offered live animals through its mail-order catalogs from 1956 to 1964. However, versions of those catalogs — possibly including an alleged 1956 Sears Christmas book featured in popular TikTok ...