How the Sears Catalog Captures a Time When Toys Were Less Pink Toys are more gendered than they’ve ever been—even more than a half century ago, when gender discrimination was rampant.

1960 catalog pushed traditional roles, held the color line But deep into its pages it had one hint of the changes that would be coming.

Claim: Sears' mail-order catalogs from the 1950s and 1960s offered dogs, ponies, monkeys, and other animals for purchase. Rating: ...

As we were walking through Penney’s, I tried to explain to them the significance of a Sears and Roebuck catalog.

My inner child does care, however, because that inner child remembers when the Sears’ Christmas catalog would either come in the mail or land on the front door stoop in early autumn.

One of the overlooked joys of childhood in the 1960s and ’70s is the Sears Christmas catalog. The first one in 1933 was just 87 pages long. I’m not old enough to remember it, but I remember getting ...

Amazon's toy catalog, called "A Holiday of Play," is reminiscent of toy catalogs once distributed by Sears and Toys R Us.

Sears' mail-order catalogs from the 1950s and 1960s offered dogs, ponies, monkeys, and other animals for purchase. Rating: Context: Sears offered live animals through its mail-order catalogs from 1956 ...