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Richard Sears, a railroad station agent, started selling watches as a side business in North Redwood, Minnesota. The following year, he moved to the company's first Chicago location and hired ...

Once upon a time—way before online shopping—you could order just about everything you needed from the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog—including a house. In the early 20th century, the massive Sears ...

From a 1960s stockings advertisement to a 1970s floral paper dress, viewers can catch a glimpse into fashion trends across decades at The University of Georgia Special Collections Library exhibit, ...

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Sears' mail-order catalogs from the 1950s and 1960s offered dogs, ponies, monkeys, and other animals for purchase. Sears offered live animals through its mail-order catalogs from 1956 to 1964. However ...

Sears' mail-order catalogs from the 1950s and 1960s offered dogs, ponies, monkeys, and other animals for purchase. Rating: True (About this rating?) Context: Sears offered live animals through its ...

Uniquely is a Sacramento Bee series that covers the moments, landmarks and personalities that define what makes living in the Sacramento area so special. Minnie Kendall’s Roseville house was said to ...

In her free time, Judith Chabot, a recently retired high school teacher, hunts for a particular kind of house. She browses Zillow listings, pores over historical mortgage records and scours ...

Many people are familiar with the homes that were shown in old Sears/Roebuck catalogs and shipped in pieces, but as far as I know, none of these homes exist in Santa Barbara. We do, however, have more ...

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 ...