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When the Sears Wish Book made Christmas magical

The arrival of the Sears Wish Book catalog was always a monumental event at Christmas, and for kids like my brother, sister ...
Sears launched its first Christmas Wishbook catalog since 2011 this year. To take a look back at holiday catalogs since they began in 1933, the Tribune visited the Sears catalog archives in Hoffman ...
From across the crowded antique mall it beckoned me. One thick, faded catalog with a pretty smiling blonde on the cover. I moved closer. Was that Cheryl Tiegs? Was she modeling a denim pantsuit that ...
A year after it shuttered its “Big Book” catalog operation and fired 20,000 catalog employees, Sears, Roebuck and Co. returned to the wide-circulation catalog business. Sears and Hanover Ventures Inc.
Before Amazon became the one-stop shop for practically everything, there was the Sears catalog. With one-fifth of Americans as subscribers, the catalog dominated the market and impacted the lives of ...
An unearthed Sears catalog from 1905 has revealed what was being marketed to women, with bust cream and arsenous tablets on sale. The origins of the department store, officially known as Sears, ...