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 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.

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.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.