The first Sears store in Cincinnati opened on Reading Road in 1929, and other locations soon followed. Now, there aren't any ...

Setting up at Dearborn and Randolph streets, Sears hired a watchmaker “thin to emaciation,” Alvah Roebuck. Their watch company grew rapidly into a general mail-order company that used high ...

Richard Sears began selling watches in 1886. A year later, he opened a Chicago location for catalog sales and hired a watchmaker, Alvah C. Roebuck. The mail-order watch and jewelry company Sears ...

In 1893, Sears, Roebuck and Co. was officially formed. Shortly thereafter, it moved its headquarters to Chicago. The Sears catalog came before the stores In the late 19th century, the postal ...

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 ...

“Sears was originally Sears and Roebuck and founder Alvah Curtis Roebuck began as a watchmaker in a Hammond jewelry store at age 22,” Malarik noted. Sears was on the mind of Malarik and so ...

really say the least here. JARED BLIKRE: It's Sears and Roebuck, so no drum roll on this one. By the way, this is the fifth and final installment of our "Then and Now" series for 2021. I have a ...

At its peak, Sears, Roebuck was the world’s largest retailer, with nearly 3,500 Sears and Kmart stores, including 2,350 full-line and off-mall stores, and 1,100 specialty retail stores.

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 ...

What began as Galveston Island’s Sears and Roebuck store is now home to one of GHF’s more public endeavors. To celebrate the recent exterior restoration work as well as the recently installed ...