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 ...

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 offered live animals through its mail-order catalogs from 1956 to 1964. However, some versions of those catalogs — possibly including an alleged 1956 Sears Christmas book featured in popular ...

If you want to know what American life was like during the 20th century, there are two essential resources: LIFE magazine and the Sears Roebuck catalog. Google Books put the entire run of LIFE on the ...

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 ...

A: The company stopped producing its general catalog in 1993. However Sears continues to offer specialty catalogs such as the Christmas Wish Book, catalogs for tools, auto accessories, home ...

Ruth Parrington, librarian in the art department of the Chicago Public Library, studies early Sears Roebuck catalogs in the library's collection, in Chicago. The catalog Parrington is holding features ...

In an undated file photo, Ruth Parrington, librarian in the art department of the Chicago Public Library, studies early Sears Roebuck catalogs in the library's collection in Chicago. The catalog ...

According to a Realtor.com report, the three-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom, 3,300-square-foot house in Celina, Texas, was originally purchased in 1910 from the Sears catalog. Sears sold as many as 75,000 ...