The internet hasn’t killed off the mail-order catalog. Discover a list of popular mail order catalogs from direct-to-consumer ...

Gardeners have relied on the mail for centuries. Long before mail-order nurseries first sent their catalogs to customers, gardeners wrote to friends asking for a piece of a peony root, a tulip bulb or ...

Looking to buy a nose hair trimmer, wearable neck air conditioner or holographic fish tank from the always quirky Hammacher Schlemmer catalog? Time may be running out. Last week, the Chicago company ...

Sears' mail-order catalogs from the 1950s and 1960s offered dogs, ponies, monkeys, and other animals for purchase. Sears offered live animals through its mail-order catalogs from 1956 to 1964. However ...

“Sports suits” and “suspender skirts” might not be the focus of New York Fashion Week but we’re enjoying the vintage charm found in a Smithsonian Trade Literature Collection from the early 20th ...

Long before Amazon and internet shopping, you could buy almost anything from a mail-order catalog. Clothing, furniture, jewelry, toys, plant seeds. Even homes. From 1908 to 1940, customers could pick ...

Thirty-five years ago, print media was having a renaissance. And the uncontested leader of the medium, with more cultural relevance than most magazines or books, was a clothing catalog, delivered free ...

Sears offered live animals through its mail-order catalogs from 1956 to 1964. However, versions of those catalogs — possibly including an alleged 1956 Sears Christmas book featured in popular TikTok ...

Aaron Montgomery Ward saw catalogs as an expression of American values. Aaron Montgomery Ward saw catalogs as an expression of American values. His catalogs gave more people, especially Black and ...