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.

For so many people who grew up before the internet, the Sears catalog WAS the internet. The thick, heavy books had tools, dishes, TVs, clothes, appliances and just about anything else you’d need ...

The Sears catalog was the way many Americans first started to buy mass-produced goods. Bettmann/Getty Images. A Sears, Roebuck and Co. store in El Paso, Texas, circa 1940.

Fall/Winter Sears catalog from 1957 Annie Wells/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images From heroin to houses, Sears had it all. But before the Chicago business became America’s largest retailer ...

Sears' mail-order catalogs from the 1950s and 1960s offered dogs, ponies, monkeys, and other animals for purchase. Rating: ...

When a $1.1 million Craftsman house in Boulder, Colorado, was first built in 1923, the materials came from a Sears catalog kit that cost $1,797, or the equivalent of around $32,000 today. Even ...

We do, however, have more than 100 similar local catalog homes that were produced by a Los Angeles company: Pacific Ready-Cut Homes. Homes offered by catalog companies — Sears and other companies ...

The 1,100-square-foot (102 square metres), two-bedroom home is a Sears Modern kit house – the blueprints and building supplies for which were originally ordered from the American retailer's ...

People in the Sacramento area might think they own a Sears house. Here’s why these houses are often confused.

According to the national database, Sears Houses, the retailer — known at the time as Sears, Roebuck & Co. — sold blueprints, ...