Even homes. From 1908 to 1940, customers could pick out their own ready-to-assemble home kit from a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog and have the materials shipped directly to them, primarily by rail.

She begged for a banjo, and when she was 16 her father ordered one from the Sears Roebuck catalogue. “You could actually get really nice old banjos from Sears Roebuck,” Grey said. “And I would watch ...

The retailer won over patrons with mail-order catalogs by taking advantage of ... The department store chain, founded as Sears, Roebuck and Co. in 1893 and hailed in the 1980s as America’s ...

Think the Sears Roebuck home kits, in which landowners in the early 20th century picked a home design from a glossy catalog and had instructions and building supplies shipped to them.

She was a registered dietitian, and her husband worked from home learning day trading and what makes small business ideas ...

A New York Times obituary for Leigh Perkins noted the company “was sending out catalogs before the Civil War and predated Sears, Roebuck by more than 20 years.” Michael Harrington, Vermont’s ...

Many of the public comment submissions claim the home was a product of the Sears, Roebuck Catalog Homes – easy-to-build kit houses delivered by mail, popular in the early 20th century.

The retailer won over patrons with mail-order catalogs by taking advantage of the railroad ... The department store chain, founded as Sears, Roebuck and Co. in 1893 and hailed in the 1980s as ...

Dave Fullner was just a tyke in the 1940s, sitting in the back of his parents’ Model A Ford and heading to the big city. Fullner’s parents, Adolph and Lydia Fullner of Beemer, held in their ...

A surreal art exhibition titled “Cut and Paste” from self-taught Williston artist Deana Novak is celebrating whimsy and ...