Category: Publishing

Classified “want ads” were invaluable when selling or seeking jobs and services, places to live, things to buy, announcements of births, marriages and deaths

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin walked on the moon. The world watched on TV but turned to newspapers for the full story.

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