In Sears 1908 catalog, A.J. Aubrey hammerless single barrel shotgun (l.) was priced at $7.95. Earlier White Powder Wonder model, (r.), sold for even less.

Sears' mail-order catalogs from the 1950s and 1960s offered dogs, ponies, monkeys, and other animals for purchase. Rating: Context: Sears offered live animals through its mail-order catalogs from 1956 ...

Context: Sears offered live animals through its mail-order catalogs from 1956 to 1964. However, some versions of those catalogs — possibly including an alleged 1956 Sears Christmas book featured in ...

(1956 Sears fall/winter catalog, courtesy christmas.musetechnical.com) It's possible that some Sears catalogs in the 1950s and 1960s offered animals for sale while others didn't because they were ...

The Sears catalog -- and competitors who followed -- allowed them to buy those goods, providing a market for goods made in factories. That allowed more Americans to live in cities. 1913 ...

The nation in the midst of the Ebola scare after a man from Africa -where there was an epidemic that killed thousands, was discovered to have the virus in a Houston hospital. The nation's ...

Sears started selling self-building materials through catalog by about 1895, but the department wasn’t profitable. So, in 1906, Sears manager Frank W. Kushel was assigned to close it down.

Sears and Kmart merged in 2004. Published reports note that Sears hit a peak stock price of $195.18 a share in 2007, but then fell into decline—with the company no longer being profitable by 2010.

Many people are familiar with the homes that were shown in old Sears/Roebuck catalogs and shipped in pieces, but as far as I know, none of these homes exist in Santa Barbara. We do, however, have more ...

Sears standardized materials like drywall and asphalt shingles to drive down costs. Between 1908 and 1942, Sears sold an estimated 75,000 homes through its mail-order catalog.

Between 1908 and 1942, Sears sold an estimated 75,000 houses through its mail-order catalog. "The company's simplistic home designs changed life forever," according to a history of the program.