Mail-Order Catalogs as Resources in American Culture Studies

mail-order catalogs have been recorded in Charles Evans's twelve-volume American Bibliography (1903-34), Lawrence Romaine is persuaded that hundreds were printed and that Franklin's 1744 mail-order promotion of his Pennsylvania fireplaces and other items was the first American example of this genre.9 Appropriately enough, both Sears's and Ward's ................
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