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ARTICLES RELATED TO Sears Catalog Home - Modern Homes 1908-1940 | | | |  Sears Catalog Home - Modern Homes 1908-1940: Encyclopedia II - Sears Catalog Home - Modern Homes 1908-1940In 1906, Frank W. Kushel, a Sears manager, was given responsibility for the catalog company's unwieldy, non-profitable building materials department. Sales were down, and there was too much inventory sitting in expensive warehouses. He is credited with suggesting to Richard Sears that the company assemble kits of all the parts needed and sell entire houses through mail-order.
Beginning in 1908, Sears issued its first specialty catalog for houses, Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans, featuring 22 styles ranging in pri ...
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| | | | Sears Catalog Home - Modern Homes 1908-1940: Encyclopedia II - Sears Catalog Home - History: Mail-order In 1886, the United States contained only 38 states. Many people lived in rural areas and typically farmed. Richard Sears had been a railroad station agent in Minnesota. He moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he met Alvah C. Roebuck who joined him in the business. In 1893, the corporate name became Sears, Roebuck and Co..
Richard Sears knew that farmers often brought their crops to town where they could be sold and shipped, and then bought supplies, often at very high prices, from local general stores. He and Roebuck offered a solution ...
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