Beginning in1908, catalog customers could browse among styles and models of homes, then they could order all the materials to build it.

There are plenty of decades-old Sears catalogs, employee pins and vintage items for sale on eBay. In the wake of the company's bankruptcy filing earlier this week, plenty of people are selling ...

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 ...

A 1921 catalog of Sears kit homes offers the Magnolia for $6,488. Only seven Magnolias are known to exist, including one at 1500 James St., Syracuse.

Opinion; In the Sears catalog, a kid could find just about every toy imaginable. Published: ; Nov. 26, 2021, 3:30 p.m.

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 ...

In one video, Forbes opens a sealed 1996 Sears Wish Book, which happens to be his favorite catalog he owns. Since posting, the video has garnered more than 600,000 views and 1,800 comments.

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.

In 1908, Sears published “Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans,” the first catalog devoted to mail-order homes. The high-quality Honor Bilt Modern Homes ranged in price from $650 to $2,500 ...

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 ...