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 ...

Remember opening up your mailbox to discover your eagerly anticipated Christmas catalog? Children would excitedly flip through the pages to select items for their letters to Santa or identify ...

Question: While going through containers filled with Christmas items after our late grandmother’s death, my brother and I came across several boxes filled with old Sears “Wish” Christmas catalogs, ...

Richard Sears, a railroad station agent, started selling watches as a side business in North Redwood, Minnesota. The following year, he moved to the company's first Chicago location and hired ...

Will plunging profits soon spell the end of Sears, Roebuck and Company? The 122-year-old retail giant virtually created modern American consumerism. For anyone over the age of 40, its demise is almost ...

The Mid-century Modern house was everything a growing family could desire: spacious rooms, a kidney-shaped outdoor pool, completely furnished nursery, patio with umbrella table, a weathervane cupola ...

There’s a house on Sanibel that has stood the test of time and built the same way you would build with Legos. Ty Symroski grew up in the classic 1922 Sears Roebuck catalog home, a home that was picked ...