Claim: The mens underwear section of a 1975 Sears catalog featured a picture of a male model whose penis could be seen peeking out from beneath a pair boxer shorts. page advertising mens' shirts ...

It was an 1888-89 catalogue of watches, diamonds and jewelry distributed to mail-order customers by the R.W. Sears Watch Co. of Chicago. It was the first Sears catalogue, the company`s touchstone.

And — amazingly, for the time — they could even order homes via catalog. Sears, once America's largest retailer, was just one company that sold homes this way. Now that its parent company has ...

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 ...

It looked like a deathbed rally for the Sears Big Book as customers and memorabilia seekers queued up Tuesday at area stores and jammed phone lines to buy final copies of the legendary catalog.

Because that quintessentially American form of music was created and disseminated by Delta bluesmen wielding steel-string guitars purchased from the Sears catalog — which leveled the shopping ...

you could find in the 1908 Sears catalog. It just so happens we had one of those old 1908 catalogs lying around, so we decided to take a last, nostalgic look. Don't ask us where we found it.

[ID:nN23176648]. Sears virtually invented mail-order, selling everything from clothes to houses via catalog, and was generating $1 billion in sales by 1945. Sign up here. Today, the former ...