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Sears Through the Years

Thursday, February 22, 2018
This is a undated photo of a vintage Sears and Roebuck catalog cover.
Women's and girl's underskirts are pictured in a 1902 issue of a Sears Roebuck catalog on the shelves of the Chicago Public Library, Aug. 26, 1948.
A Columbia Gramophone Grand, pictured in a Sears Roebuck catalog from 1902, is shown in this photo from Chicago, Aug. 26, 1948.
Women's hats are pictured in a 1907 Sears Roebuck catalog from the shelves of the Chicago Public Library, Aug. 26, 1948. Hat's of 1907 were huge and low priced.
Illustrations of women's shoes are pictured in a 1918 issue of a Sears Roebucks catalog on the shelves of the Chicago Public Library, Aug. 26, 1948.
** FILE ** In this file photo from an unknown source, women crowd the counters of one of the first Sears retail stores in 1925.
Ruth Parrington, librarian in the art department of the Chicago Public Library, studies early Sears Roebuck catalogs.
Shopper, Mrs. Arlene Hardt, right, is shown drapery samples by clerk Lucille Jagusch at the Golf-Mill Sears Roebuck department store in Niles, Ill., Aug. 23, 1961.
A store clerk helps a customer interested in a soil tiller at the Golf-Mill Sears Roebuck department store in Niles, Ill., Aug. 23, 1961.
N. Subrin, left, manager of the floor cover department at the Golf-Mill Sears Roebuck department store in Niles, Ill., shows Mrs. G. Moeri a carpet sample, Aug. 23, 1961.
Mannequins are shown as Sears, Roebuck & Co. unveiled their "Store of the Future" in King of Prussia, Pa., on July 21, 1983, acknowledging it was playing merchandising "catch up."
The Sears Outlet Store in Downers Grove, Sept. 17, 1993. The remaining outlet stores closed in 1993, marking the end of the company's 105-year-old catalog operation.
People walk by the Sears store in Mexico City, Wednesday, April 2, 1997.
Customers shop inside the Sears store in downtown Chicago on Wednesday, March 15, 2006.
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This is a undated photo of a vintage Sears and Roebuck catalog cover.
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