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

If you're clicking through the internet today hoping to do a little shopping, you likely have Aaron Montgomery Ward to thank. Ward's catalog was a single sheet offering 163 items. By 1884, the catalog ...

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 ...

A mail-order business is one that receives and fulfills orders for merchandise through the mail. The terms “mail-order,” “direct mail,” and “direct marketing” are sometimes used interchangeably; in ...

Connie, my wife, is a mail-order catalog shopper. Given her busy work schedule, mail-order catalog shopping is quick and convenient, an effective utilization of her spare time. The system works ...

While mail-order companies may seem like a relic of the past, they served an important role in retail history and continue to operate to this day. Mail-order catalogs are physical books or booklets ...

“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 ...

“Aren’t you sick of all the catalogs in the mail?” asked my friend Kelly over lunch the other day. “Not in the least,” I said, in my deservedly authoritative manner. Catalogs are one of the shrinking ...

Lillian Vernon, whose kitchen-table notion to sell monogrammed handbags and belts spawned one of America’s best-known mail-order catalog businesses, has died. She was 88. She died Monday in New York ...