Before the internet revolutionized shopping, mail-order catalogs were the primary way many Americans bought products from the comfort of their homes. Baby Boomers grew up flipping through glossy pages ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...