When you think of Sears today, you may think of a place at the mall where you’d buy tools or a pair of jeans. But if you turn the dial back a century, the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog was also a way ...

FALL RIVER — Before there was Amazon Prime, there was the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalog. The retail giant's catalog, printed from 1892 to 1993, featured any product an American consumer could ever need ...

SCOTTS Morgan and Pam Macomber dreamed of finding just the right house -- one evoking a special ambiance of the past. They'd driven past the red house, but they had no idea it had been a 1928 Sears ...

VICTOR, N.Y. — Sears Roebuck and Co. started selling mail-order houses from its specialty catalog — the Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans — in 1908. It is reported that more than 100,000 houses ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Not long ago, the Sears, Roebuck and Co. mail-order catalog was the ultimate ...

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 ...

In our “Information Age” it might be difficult to comprehend the significance of Sears, Roebuck & Co. in the lives of several generations of mountain people. Comparable to the World Wide Web, the ...

It’s not 1939 outside. But this unfortunate date (see above) hasn’t prevented me from perusing, in some detail, the Fall-Winter catalog from Sears, Roebuck and Co. They are perhaps my only costly vice ...