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Sears Modern Homes were houses sold primarily through mail order catalog by Sears, Roebuck and Co., an American retailer. From 1908 to 1942, Sears sold more than 70,000 of these houses in North America, by the company's count. [ 1 ]
Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears (/ s ɪər z / SEERZ), [6] is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail-order catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago. [7]
The Sears Wish Book was a popular Christmas-themed catalog released annually by the American department store chain Sears in August or September. The catalog contained toys and other holiday-related merchandise. The first Sears Wish Book was published in 1933 [1] and was a separate catalog from the annual Sears Christmas catalog.
Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores Inc. was an American retail company that sold home appliances, lawn & garden equipment, apparel, mattresses, sporting goods, and tools. [3] [4] The company had four subsidiary store formats: Sears Hometown, Sears Outlet, Sears Hardware and Appliance, and Sears Home Appliance Showrooms. [5]
Sears Canada Inc still issues over 15 printed catalogues every year. Included in these (15) printed catalogues are three (3) large catalogues - the Spring and Summer Catalogue, the Fall and Winter General Catalogue, and the popular Christmas WishBook catalogue. In fall 2012, Sears Canada catalogue issued its 60th anniversary WishBook edition.
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Sears had been selling cylinder records under their company name since the 1890s. Harvard was the first attempt at marketing their own records through their catalog as a brand. The name likely came from a nearby street where Sears moved to in 1905. [1] Originally for phonographs, before being applied to cylinder and disc records in the early ...
From 1908 to 1940, Sears Roebuck and Company sold ready-to-assemble houses through mail order under the Sears Catalog Homes brand. Model No. 115, pictured here in a catalog advertisement, was sold during the period from 1908 to 1914 at a price of $725.00. Articles this image appears in Sears Catalog Home, Architecture of the United States Creator