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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s not 1939 outside. But this unfortunate date (see above) hasn’t prevented me from perusing, in some detail, the Fall-Winter catalog from Sears, Roebuck and Co. They are perhaps my only costly vice ...

A year after it shuttered its “Big Book” catalog operation and fired 20,000 catalog employees, Sears, Roebuck and Co. returned to the wide-circulation catalog business. Sears and Hanover Ventures Inc.

How do you pay a spy? Hollywood clichés suggest the goods get delivered in bulletproof suitcases or anonymous envelopes, but in real life, spies collect old-fashioned paychecks just like the rest of ...