The history of what was later to become the Meriden Fire Arms Co. is actually the story of Andrew Fyrberg & Co. of Worcester, ...

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 ...

Candace Forbes Since then, Forbes has collected six Sears holiday catalogs. While he has a few from his childhood, he’s also managed to find others at garage sales and online. He says the ...

The 1933 catalog included products such as the "Miss Pigtails" doll, a Mickey Mouse watch and a five pound box of chocolates, ...

Thanks to those advantages, e-commerce dominance was arguably Sears’ to lose. Sears was a catalog-only retailer for decades before it opened its first store in 1925. At its peak in the 1980s ...

Harbst said it wasn’t until after she bought the house that she learned homes were once sold through mail-order catalogs. She searched the Sears Home archive until she found a catalog with a ...