The rise and fall of Sears<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nBlack Friday shoppers line up outside a Sears store in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, in 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The rise and fall of Sears<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nThe cover of a Sears Roebuck and Co. catalog in the fall of 1900. The Sears catalog was the way many Americans first started to buy mass-produced goods.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The rise and fall of Sears<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nA Sears, Roebuck and Co. store in El Paso, Texas, circa 1940. Sears’ stores helped reshape America, drawing shoppers away from the traditional Main Street merchants.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The rise and fall of Sears<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nSales clerks go on strike in Chicago circa 1946.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The rise and fall of Sears<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nA Sears store in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1949.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The rise and fall of Sears<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nPeople vote inside a Sears store in Tucson, Arizona, in 1953.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The rise and fall of Sears<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nA woman receives a cosmetics consultation at a Sears store in Caracas, Venezuela, circa 1953.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The rise and fall of Sears<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nA worker goes over files in Sears’ catalog office.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The rise and fall of Sears<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nCars fill a parking lot outside a Sears store, circa 1958.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The rise and fall of Sears<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nSales clerk Lucille Jagusch shows drapery samples to shopper Arlene Hardt at a Sears store in Niles, Illinois, in 1961.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The rise and fall of Sears<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nPeople shop inside a Sears store in Morton Grove, Illinois, in 1961.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The rise and fall of Sears<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nSoldiers guard a Sears store in Baltimore after riots broke out following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The rise and fall of Sears<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nPeople watch the Apollo 11 rocket launch at a Sears store in White Plains, New York, in 1969.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The rise and fall of Sears<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nAn iron worker helps construct the Sears Tower in Chicago. Sears’ new headquarters, built in 1973, was the world’s tallest building until 1998. Sears sold the building in 1994.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The rise and fall of Sears<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nA customer shops in Woodfield, Illinois, in 1991.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n