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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 was not the first company to offer "kit homes," but the 1908 launch of Sears Modern Homes catalog, advertising a variety of home architectural styles and blueprints needed to build them, ...

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 ...