T he mail order catalogue is becoming something of a misnomer. Most of the booklets that drop through the door, full of glossy product pictures, no longer contain order forms to complete and return.

Why Mail Order Catalogs Are Making a Comeback. Growing up, my mom was queen of the mail order catalog. I remember getting everything from the gigantic Sears and JC Penny Wishbooks to catalogs for ...

Montgomery Ward’s catalogue was once ranked among the most influential books in US history. Mail order transformed middle class living in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Show more Some ...

In the early 1900s, Sears sold thousands of homes around the U.S. through its mail-order catalogs. Many of those houses are still around, and their owners are saddened by the retailer's bankruptcy.

Monday’s announcement that Sears would file for bankruptcy and close 142 stores came as little surprise to anyone who has followed the retail giant’s collapse in recent years. Still, th… ...

Long before the internet there was the mail-order catalogue, from which you could buy almost anything without actually going to the shop. In the USA—where the whole idea started—the catalogue ...

As historians of the Jim Crow era have documented, purchasing everyday household goods was often an exercise in humiliation for African Americans in the South. Before the advent of the mail-order ...

Sundance Holdings Group LLC, the U.S. artisan mail-order catalog company founded by actor Robert Redford, is working with investment bank Lazard Ltd <LAZ.N> to explore a sale of the company ...