"WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)" . . "Video recordings for the hearing impaired." . . "United States." . . "United States" . "Commercial catalogs." . . "Mail-order business United States History." . . . . "Sears, Roebuck and Company" . . "Sears, Roebuck and Company." . "PBS Video." . . "Commercial catalogs History." . . "WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)" . . "Obenhaus Films, Inc." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Documentary television programs"@en . "Documentary television programs" . . . . . "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en . "Video recordings for the hearing impaired" . . . . "Using archival film and photographs and interviews with historians, writers, customers and former employees, this film explores how the Sears catalogue, giving readers a sense of urban life and a vision of middle class splendors, reflected the changes of the time and became a symbol for the national ambitions and dreams of a sprawling country. Contains biographical information on Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck." . . . . . . . . . . . "Nonfiction television programs"@en . "Nonfiction television programs" . . . . "Explores how the Sears catalogue, giving readers a sense of urban life and a vision of middle class splendors, reflected the changes of the time and became a symbol for the national ambitions and dreams of a sprawling country." . . . . . "Television programs" . . "Television programs"@en . . . . . . . "Mr. Sears' catalogue"@en . "History" . "History"@en . . . "Mr. Sears' catalogue" . "Mister Sears' catalogue"@en . "Mister Sears' catalogue" . . . . . . . . . . . "Presents a history of the Sears catalog and describes how it was the link to civilization and the good life for generations of rural Americans."@en . . . . . . "Explores how the Sears catalogue, giving readers a sense of urban life and a vision of middle class splendors, reflected the changes of the time and became a symbol for the national ambitions and dreams of a sprawling country. Contains biographical information on Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck." . "Documentary on the Sears, Roebuck catalogue, which once served as a link to civilization for rural Americans."@en . "Explores how the Sears catalogue, giving readers a sense of urban life and a vision of middle class splendors, reflected the changes of the time and became a symbol for the national ambitions and dreams of a sprawling country. Contains biographical information on Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Chronicles the rise of an uniquely American enterprise, the Sears mail-order catalog, which linked rural areas to the middle class consumerism of industrial urban areas."@en . . . "1865 - 1918" . . "Mail-order business." . . "1865 - 1999" . . "Obenhaus Films (New York, N.Y.)" . . "1900 - 1999" . . "KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)" . . "Documentary films." . . "WGBH Educational Foundation." . .