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Mail order - Wikipedia  Mail order is the buying of goods or services by mail delivery. The buyer places an order for the ... In 1845, Tiffany's Blue Book was the first mail-order catalogue in the United States. In 1872 ... Within two decades, his single-page list of products grew into a 540-page illustrated book selling over 20,000 items. From about...
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Montgomery Ward published the first mail-order catalog in 1872 ...  Montgomery Ward published the first mail-order catalog in 1872. ... in 1872, when entrepreneur Montgomery Ward mailed a one-page catalog to rural shoppers.
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Column: Before the Internet, there were Sears, Roebuck and ...  Dec 26, 2014 ... There was a time, dear delicate one, that all we had were Monkey Ward ... Both mail-order retailers published big, thick catalogs. ... Sears also published a catalog with hundreds of pages, and it also ... His name was Ivan, and he was a strong as an ox. ... Montgomery Ward published its first catalog in 1872.
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Ward's Cites Losses, Retail Plans : Nation's First Catalogue Will ...  Aug 3, 1985 ... America's first catalogue, Aaron Montgomery Ward's stroke of ... out his first catalogue 14 years later--and eventually the mail-order industry ... with the Ward's catalogue, a piece of Americana launched in 1872 as a ... One of Seven Homes ... Like many farm families once dependent on the thick, glossy wish...
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Mail Order - Encyclopedia of Chicago  Montgomery Ward & Co., the world's first giant mail-order enterprise, started in Chicago just ... In 1872, when he was 28, he opened his own business. ... Ward advertised by sending out a catalog, which started as a single page but ... eventually become one of the most important firms in the mail-order industry was Spiegel.
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Full text of "Canadian grocer July-December 1898" - Internet Archive  On one of these visits we boys asked father to give us a recipe to make ... The first factory was a building 12 x 1 15 feet ; and Morse Bros. ..... VISIT FROM A HALIGONIAN. .... Sir Henri happened to be away, but three days afterwards a reply came, ...... This stamp was designed by Sir Sanford Fleming, who, I believe, has the...
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How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in ...  Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1872 - Africa, Central - 736 pages ... Preview this book  ... Review: How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa. User Review...
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Mail order - Wikipedia  Mail order is the buying of goods or services by mail delivery. The buyer places an order for the ... In 1744 he produced a catalogue of sold scientific and academic books. ... This was the world's first mail order business, an idea which would change the ... He also began exporting drapery to the US and British colonies.
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First telegraphic message---24 May 1844 | Library of Congress  Title: First telegraphic message---24 May 1844; Contributor Names: Morse, Samuel Finley ... Morse's early system produced a paper copy with raised dots and dashes, which ... the young daughter of a good friend, for suggesting the message he sent. ... Invention of the Telegraph - Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of...
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Printing and Publishing Industry | Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History ...  The first book published in present Oklahoma was a Muskogee-language primer ... Baptist Mission press, which published the Cherokee Messenger, the state's first periodical. ... first newspaper, the Cherokee Advocate issued on September 26, 1844, ... became associated with that paper in 1897, he purportedly was the first...
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Norman Mailer's first novel, The Naked and the Dead, is published ...  On this day in History, Norman Mailer's first novel, The Naked and the Dead, is published on May 04, 1948. ... 22  23  24  25  26  27  28 ... In 1991, his four-pound novel Harlot's Ghost explored the CIA from 1948 through the ... the first and biggest hit single off Born in the U.S.A., the best-selling album of his career.
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Postage stamps and postal history of the United States - Wikipedia  The history of postal service of the United States began with the delivery of stampless letters, ... Each of these stamps generally bore the face or bust of an American ... In 1775, when Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first Postmaster General, the U.S. .... of the U.S.), and a 10-cent value in black with George Washington.
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Did You Know? Black History by Congressman William Lacy Clay, Sr.  Feb 17, 2016 ... In 1888 the company published the first of its famous mail-order catalogues. ... In 1894 the catalogue cover proclaimed Sears was the "Cheapest ... Company, where he invented an improved typewriter, called the "Woodstock.
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Old Telephone Books: First Telephone Book  The first telephone "book" - actually just a single 14 cm. x 21 cm. sheet - was issued in New Haven in 1878. ... By the way, a New Haven telephone book issued later in 1878, containing numerous pages and ... This was purportedly the first telephone book with more than one sheet of paper. ... Telephone Directory Directory
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finding aid - Philatelic Union Catalog - American Philatelic Research ...  Linn's Postal History Primer, an introductory handbook based on his Linn's .... B. Free Franklin, Vmails Weather Report Backstamps. 74. ... US capital move from Philadelphia to Washington; though free franked covers. 107. ... US special delivery mail ..... Rapid cancelling machines, ticket dater cancels, Goldsborough device...
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J! Archive - Show #3385, aired 1999-04-30  In March 1861 it delivered the mail from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento in a .... He was the first U.S. president born in Missouri -- Lamar, Missouri, to be exact...
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comic strip - The first half of the 20th century: the evolution of the ...  In January 1894 a comic strip filled for the first time a full-colour page of Joseph ... the New York World; in October 1896 the publisher William Randolph Hearst ... Father (begun 1913/16), also the first American strip to achieve international fame. .... more important than the deliberately repetitive drawings, which never went...
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Postage stamps and postal history of the United States - Wikipedia  The history of postal service of the United States began with the delivery of stampless letters, ... B Free Franklin Post Office in Philadelphia ... The task of collecting money for letter after letter greatly slowed the postman on his route. .... The first stamp issue of the U.S. was offered for sale on July 1, 1847, in New York City, with...
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The card catalog: birth and death of a technology | Reading, Writing ...  Oct 16, 2013 ... The card catalog, once a feature in every library, has become part of the nostalgic ... From a book catalog of the Ashmole manuscript collection at the ... Card catalogs first became commonplace in both the US and Britain by the 1870s. ... Then all the purchasing libraries needed to do was type the added...
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Today in History - May 24 | Library of Congress  On May 24, 1844, Samuel F. B. Morse dispatched the first telegraphic message over ... The message, taken from the Bible, Numbers 23:23 and recorded on a paper ... the inventor of the telegraph, but he is also esteemed for his contributions to ... George McClellan sent frequent dispatches to the War Department telegraph...
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Splendors and Miseries of Being an Author/Bookseller - ABAA  My own first book catalogue, issued under the imprimatur of Dust Bowl ... a group of my letters to the late Jim Roman, the modern first edition dealer from ... Very clearly, studios consider scripts their physical property, and not the ... The old man was James M. Cain. .... That book started with a title, as many of my books have.