“Sears has everything,” America’s once largest retail chain used to tell its shoppers during its heyday back in the early 1970s. These days the slowly-fading-away retailer would have to more aptly say ...

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 ...

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' ...

The birthplace of Sears, Roebuck & Co. was this railroad station, left, in North Redwood, Minn. A young station agent there, Richard W. Sears, right, launched the business in 1886 and moved to Chicago ...