Sears’ bankruptcy filing on Monday drummed up plenty of nostalgia for its heyday as the world’s biggest retailer. As Hoffman Estates-based Sears Holdings Corp. works to save its business, there’s no ...

My mother gave me the coolest thing ever — the 1964 Spring and Summer edition of the Sears Catalog. No one comes to my house and sees it without gasping and wanting to flip through the pages to see ...

A late arrival to the gaming field who grew up in a household devoid of consoles. Her life changed after she found an old Gameboy Color and a copy of Pokémon Crystal at a garage sale. While she ...

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 ...

From soon after Sears, Roebuck & Co. started in 1893, its mail-order catalog became famous for carrying almost everything heartland Americans needed. Anti-tuberculosis potions. Baby chicks. Wedding ...

"What most people don't know is just how radical the catalog was in the era of Jim Crow," Louis Hyman, an associate professor of history at Cornell University, wrote in a Twitter thread that was ...

Thanks to the Internet, you can buy just about anything online and have it shipped to you in a few days or less. The process is reminiscent of the early 1900s, when people turned to mail-order ...

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 ...