Remember opening up your mailbox to discover your eagerly anticipated Christmas catalog? Children would excitedly flip through the pages to select items for their letters to Santa or identify ...

We can’t reproduce their text or pictures here, but I can think of few better historical sources than the old Sears catalogs — both genuine and reprinted — that I’ve collected for years. Here’s a ...

Sears’ bankruptcy filing on Monday drummed up plenty of nostalgia for its heyday as the world’s biggest retailer. As Hoffman Estates-based Sears Holdings Corp. works to save its business, there’s no ...

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 ...

Question: While going through containers filled with Christmas items after our late grandmother’s death, my brother and I came across several boxes filled with old Sears “Wish” Christmas catalogs, ...