We check in on an Iowa home or two ordered from a Sears Catalog in the 1920s. To commemorate Mail Order Catalog Day on August 18, we’ll check in on an Iowa home or two ordered from a Sears Catalog in ...

Sears sold mail-order kit homes from 1908 to 1942, ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. Few Sears kit homes were sold in Florida, likely due to shipping logistics and the homes' ...

From heroin to houses, Sears had it all. But before the Chicago business became America’s largest retailer—and affixed its name to the world’s tallest building—Sears started by selling time. In 1886, ...

Anything could be bought from a Sears catalog: kitchen tables, lamps, clothes, dishes, stoves, mantels — everything you could ever need. You could even buy your house from Sears. Imagine paging ...

An unearthed Sears catalog from 1905 has revealed what was being marketed to women, with bust cream and arsenous tablets on sale. The origins of the department store, officially known as Sears, ...