Long before Amazon and internet shopping, you could buy almost anything from a mail-order catalog. Clothing, furniture, jewelry, toys, plant seeds. Even homes. From 1908 to 1940, customers could pick ...

Long before Amazon and internet shopping, you could buy almost anything from a mail-order catalog. Clothing, furniture, jewelry, toys, plant seeds. Even homes. From 1908 to 1940, customers could pick ...

This Tuesday, March 28th, the Landmarks Preservation Commission will host another public hearing on landmarking the Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Building at 2307 Beverly Road in Flatbush. The first hearing ...

Sears, Roebuck & Co. once dominated the mail-order industry by offering a catalog full of nearly every product imaginable. Then the company hit on an idea: what if Sears could offer an entire home ...

According to an article in the May 15, 2006 edition of the Wall Street Journal, about 70,000 to 100,000 homes made by Sears, Roebuck and Co. were sold through Sears catalogs from 1908 to 1940. The ...

From Sears to Ponce City Market, 1926-present The Sears, Roebuck and Co. Building, a Ponce de Leon Avenue landmark for almost 90 years, is now the Ponce City Market. Take a look back at the building ...

I can’t remember when I first learned of Sears Roebuck homes, but it must have been decades ago. There are several in the county and one was on Greene County’s Tour of Homes when it was in Durham in ...

Julius Rosenwald was one of the greatest philanthropists of the twentieth century, yet outside the United States he remains almost […] ...

Reproduced from a copy in the library of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Facsimile reprint of 1926 ed. which was published by Sears, Roebuck, Chicago. 1926 title ...