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 ...

Sears resurrects Wish Book catalog HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Sears, Roebuck & Co. is bringing back its Wish Book catalog after a 14-year hiatus, the U.S. midrange retail chain said.

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 ...

The Sears-Roebuck catalog was truly the old-time equivalent of Amazon.com for our great-grandparents. Country folks born during the first half of the 20th century grew up with the thick, picture book ...

In Sears, Roebuck's new fall & winter catalogue 250 items were ... its own monthly book club. Sears is out for 100,000 members who will agree to take at least four books a year—at $1.66 ...

Leafing through a Sears catalog, circling what you want, may be the brand's biggest gift to our cultural zeitgeist. The telephone-book sized anthology of anything you'd ever need or want stands ...

The Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog stopped printing in 1993, and the company struggles to remain relevant. However, some of the lessons from its storied past remain. Steffan Postaer is Executive ...

Sears was a crackerjack salesman, and Roebuck a great watchmaker. But neither of them was able to control the giant-size business they were building. Orders sometimes ran 30 or even 60 days behind ...

From 1908 to 1940, you could choose from over 400 styles of homes to purchase through Sears, Roebuck and Co. mail-order catalog. By Timothy Dahl Published: May 16, 2016 9:37 AM EDT.

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. “The Sears catalog ...