A year later, he opened a Chicago location for catalog sales and hired a watchmaker, Alvah C. Roebuck. The mail-order watch and jewelry company Sears, Roebuck and Co. was born in 1893.

They are perhaps my only costly vice: my tattered collection includes modern reprints from 1890, 1897, 1900, 1902, 1908, and 1927, plus real catalogs from 1933, 1939, 1946, and 1958, typically ...

Men’s coats in seal and China dogskin (curly and otherwise) were listed in the 1908 winter catalog. All Sears’ cast-iron stoves were made in Newark, Ohio.

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 ...

Sears, Roebuck put out its first catalog in the 1890’s. You could buy a watch, jewelry and, later on, saddles, sewing machines, silk stockings, even live singing canaries.

Until Sears, Roebuck & Co. - and its competitor, Montgomery Ward & Co. - blanketed the U.S. with catalogs in the late 19th century, Americans had no idea how many things they wanted. Most ...

I don't know why. We just did. And another Chicago-based retail giant was Sears, Roebuck and Co. Both were in what we call the mail-order business. "Mail-order" is exactly what it sounds like.

Recently sold for $290,000, this West Virginia home was model No. 158 when it was purchased from Sears, Roebuck for about $3,000 over a century ago. The post From Catalog to Closing: The ...

WILMORE, Kan. (KSNW) – A century-old historic house in Wilmore, Kansas is one of 75,000 Sears and Roebuck Catalog houses sold in the early 1900s. From the old-fashioned doorbell to the plaque ...