He recalled how the Sears & Roebuck catalogs would bring a bit of the bigger, outside world to his family’s small rural farm in West Tennessee. “When the Sears catalog came, especially at ...

The old Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog plant might hold some nostalgic interest for those heading to the Garfield Park/North Lawndale hub of Open House Chicago, but the real treat will be to see ...

The Sears-Roebuck catalog was truly the old-time equivalent of Amazon.com for our great-grandparents. ... The continuing development of Rural Free Delivery by the early 1900s meant that more farm ...

Harmony Township farmer Frank Santini, 67, recalls that his father bought the farm’s first mechanical hay loader from the Sears catalog in 1933. He still remembers the excitement that occurred ...

Between 1908 and 1942, Sears sold an estimated 75,000 houses through its mail-order catalog. “The company’s simplistic home designs changed life forever,” according to a history of the program.

From heroin to houses, Sears had it all. But before the Chicago business became America’s largest retailer—and affixed its name to the world’s tallest building—Sears started by selling ...

The farm house is one of 15 houses on the Phoenix Historic Property Register; The building is part of the Sears Catalog Homes%2C according to published reports ...

Many people are familiar with the homes that were shown in old Sears/Roebuck catalogs and shipped in pieces, but as far as I know, none of these homes exist in Santa Barbara. We do, however, have more ...

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 ...