Ancestry.com now has the complete collection of Sears, Roebuck and Company catalogs from 1896 to 1993, spring and fall seasons, available for viewing on its website. Comprising more than 250,000 pages ...

A few weeks ago, while taking two of my now-teenage granddaughters shopping for outfits for a sports banquet, I became nostalgic. As we were walking through Penney’s, I tried to explain to them the ...

What do you remember when you hear the name Sears? The answer may depend on how old you are - and if you’ve been keeping up with the news. In recent years, Sears has made headlines as a struggling ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Sep. 5—TAMAQUA — Jim Hain believes his grandparents, Charles and Catherine Houser, ordered a new house from a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog in the late 1920s or early 1930s. "The house was complete, ...

CHICAGO -- At more than 130 years old, Sears is woven into the fabric of American history. As its retail presence and cultural significance decline, we took a look back at the company through its long ...