Starting around 1908, Sears started selling prefabricated homes via its “Modern Homes” catalogs. Prices ranged from below $300 to $1,500, and you could get the blueprints and materials for bungalows, ...

Starting around 1908, Sears started selling prefabricated homes via its “Modern Homes” catalogs. Prices ranged from below ...

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

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 ...

(Sears Christmas books were holiday catalogs the retailer produced between 1933 and the early 2000s.) According to a 1955 article by The New York Times, Sears' 1956 spring/summer catalog was the first ...