To land his first copywriting job, my father was asked a question that still resonates today. In my father’s recently released memoir on his 50-year career in advertising, “Pickett, Plunkett and ...

Ancestry.com now has the complete collection of Sears, Roebuck and Company catalogs from 1896 to 1993, spring and fall seasons, available for viewing on its website. Comprising more than 250,000 pages ...

A large cluster of Sears homes can be found in the Mountainview section of Hellertown. More than 60 homes were built in the neighborhood east of Dimmick Park in the early ’40s from kits ordered ...

Ruth Parrington, librarian in the art department of the Chicago Public Library, studies early Sears Roebuck catalogs in the library's collection, in Chicago. The catalog Parrington is holding features ...

For more than a year, many eyes in Seymour have been focused on the Sears & Roebuck catalog home at the corner of Clinton Avenue (Business 60) and North Main ...

Once upon a time—way before online shopping—you could order just about everything you needed from the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog—including a house. In the early 20th century, the massive Sears ...

At lunchtime Monday, shortly after he heard that the once-mighty Sears company was filing for bankruptcy, Louis Hyman thought, “Huh, I should write some stuff down.” Hyman, a historian of capitalism ...

One of the best Christmas or Hanukkah presents that young baby boomers like me got even before the holidays did not cost our parents anything. This gift was as magical as many of the costly gifts that ...

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 ...