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The largest and one of the most expensive Sears models was the Magnolia. [19] Only seven Magnolias are known to be still standing. One Magnolia built in Lincoln, Nebraska, was demolished in 1985. [20] In addition to houses, the 1908 Sears catalog offered a kit schoolhouse with the model name "Schoolhouse No. 5008".
J.C. Higgins Model 20 - 12 Gauge Shotgun - Originally sold by Sears J.C. Higgins bicycle on display at the Pioneer Auto Museum, Murdo, South Dakota.. From 1908 until 1962, Sears, Roebuck & Company sold a wide variety of sporting goods and recreational equipment, including bicycles, golf clubs, rifles, shotguns, and revolvers under the brand name "J. C. Higgins."
Sears, Roebuck and Co. (/ s ɪər z / SEERZ), [5] commonly known as Sears, 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 ordering catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago. [6]
Where Sears' catalogs created demand, Rosenwald's redesign for more efficient customer service kept buyersloyal. When Rosenwald came on board in 1895, the company had annual sales of$750,000,the ...
Green. Agency. Ford Models. Colleen Corby (born August 3, 1947) is an American retired model. She is best known for her work as a teen in the 1960s, as well as for her modeling work in department store catalogs from the 1960s and 1970s, including those of Sears, JC Penney, Montgomery Ward, and others. Corby's modeling career began in 1959 when ...
For generations of Americans, the Sears catalog was a window to the culture of consumerism, a source of amusement, and even a supply of toilet paper in the years before indoor plumbing. From 1888
Silvertone is a brand created and promoted by Sears for its line of consumer electronics and musical instruments from 1916 to 1972. [1] The rights to the Silvertone brand were purchased by South Korean corporation Samick Music [3] in 2001. Samick made new musical instruments under the Silvertone brand and relaunched some historic models.
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.