1961. Arlene Hardt looks at drapery samples with clerk Lucille Jagusch.
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Librarian Ruth Parrington studies early Sears Roebuck catalogs. The catalog Parrington is holding features women’s fashion from 1902.
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1959. Sears building in downtown Houston.
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1961. A manager store shows a carpet sample to a customer in the Golf-Mill Sears Roebuck department store in Niles, Illinois.
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1968. Soldiers guarding a Sears department store during a period of rioting in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Portrait of businessman Richard W. Sears, founder of Sears in the 1900s.
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1983. Mannequins are shown as Sears unveils its “Store of the Future.”
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1993. Shoppers leave one of the remaining Sears outlet stores.
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1993. Shoppers pick through the bargains remaining at the Sears Outlet Store in Downers Grove, Illinois.
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2002. Customers check out the clothing in the Lands’ End section of Sears.
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2003. Shopper, Donna Burnside, and her children shop at the Sears in Utah.
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2004. Glenda Hogue from Arnold, Mo., looks over clearance items at a Sears store in suburban St. Louis.
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Holiday shoppers wait for the doors to open early outside of Sears in 2004.
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2005. K-Mart receives Sears merchandise after stockholders vote on a merger to join Sears and K-Mart.
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2005. A shopper passes shelves of holiday items for sale.
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2005. Customers shop inside of the department store after Sears overcame a steep sales drop off.
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2011. Black Friday shoppers look for bargains in the tool department of Sears.
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An employee walks through the appliance department at a Sears store in North Olmsted, Ohio in 2012.
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2012. A worker repairs a sign outside of the Sears Grand store in Solon, Ohio in 2012.
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2018. A sign for a Sears department store is displayed in Hackensack, N.J.
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