There are plenty of decades-old Sears catalogs, employee pins and vintage items for sale on eBay. In the wake of the company’s bankruptcy filing earlier this week, plenty of people are sellin… ...

Shuttering its stores? Some of us hadn't realized that Sears was still IN business.

Sears did more than pioneer the mail-order catalog over a century ago. The iconic retailer helped make America a more inclusive place at a time when Jim Crow was rampant and women couldn’t even ...

The heavy Sears catalog kept Americans linked to the latest styles without having to travel to a big city department store. Lula Rae from Wewahitchka, Florida and Tammy Jean from Opp, Alabama ...

Sears started off as a mail-order catalog company selling watches and jewelry in 1888. It became the largest catalog company in the United States after expanding its assortment.

The Sears Christmas catalogs provided hours and hours of entertainment for kids, who could flip through the dog-eared pages and dream about playing with the latest toys.

We check in on an Iowa home or two ordered from a Sears Catalog in the 1920s.

Ryan 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.

Sears launched its first Christmas Wishbook catalog since 2011 this year. To take a look back at holiday catalogs since they began in 1933, the Tribune visited the Sears catalog archives in Hoffman… ...

Monday’s announcement that Sears would file for bankruptcy and close 142 stores came as little surprise to anyone who has followed the retail giant’s collapse in recent years. Still, th… ...

Sears is currently singing the bankruptcy blues — but it's a little-known fact that the retail giant also helped nurture the musical genre spawned in the Deep South.