Category: Publishing

Before there was Amazon.com there was Mont­gomery Ward which pub­lished cat­a­logues to sell just about every­thing using direct mail. 

 LIFE, the large­ly all-pho­to­graph­ic Amer­i­can news mag­a­zine, gave as much space and impor­tance to images as to words

From 1841 to 1992 the “Lon­don Chari­vari” as Punch was also called, was eas­i­ly iden­ti­fied. The front cov­er wasn’t changed for decades.

Before Google, there were pub­li­ca­tions that car­ried top­ics of inter­est to just about everyone