As recently as 1953, new-car shoppers could avoid dealerships by ordering directly from their Sears catalog or nearest retail outlet. Named after the insurance company that owned the department-store ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Retail giant Sears has filed for bankruptcy. Historian Louis Hyman of Cornell reflects with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly on the impact the Sears catalog had for African-Americans during the Jim Crow era.

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

This year's Sears Wish Book is the company's first Christmas catalog since 2011. Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune Wish Book 1982 in Hoffman Estates on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017.

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 ...