The internet hasn’t killed off the mail-order catalog. Discover a list of popular mail order catalogs from direct-to-consumer clothing and home brands who are banking on physical snail-mail pieces as ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

It’s always fun when garden catalogs arrive in the mail. Mine generally start to arrive in December and continue through February. In the evening when things slow down, you will find me drooling over ...

Nurseries are willing to order plants for you, and you can always try starting your plants from seed. If you can’t get what you want locally, and starting a particular plant from seed isn’t practical ...

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 ...

If today's catalogs would only turn back the calendar to - say, 1908-1940 - and offer ready-made homes for sale, to customers who could order just the one they wanted according to pictures of it, ...

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 ...

Before the advent of the mail-order catalog, rural black southerners typically only had the option of shopping at white-owned general stores — often run by the owner of the same farm where they worked ...