Imagine you wanted to find books or journal articles on a particular subject. Or find manuscripts by a particular author. Or locate serials, music or maps. You would use a library catalog that ...

Just about every week, dozens of catalogs show up in my mailbox. Yesterday, there were 15 of them. I kept two: Gump’s and Smithsonian. A lot of people are surprised that catalogs even exist anymore.

The pages of the 1942 Sears Christmas catalog held much that might seem quaintly old-fashioned today. The department store retailer’s easy payment plan, which could be laid out in a simple grid, has ...

Trevor Testwuide is the CEO and co-founder of Measured. Views are the author's own. The Sears Roebuck catalog was direct to consumer before DTC was an acronym, and for more than 100 years, it was the ...

After a year spent learning, conducting business and purchasing goods online, shoppers are having a throwback holiday season. They’re putting down their phones, tablets and laptops and picking up that ...

Babylonian astronomers created early star catalogs as early as the 12th century BCE, later expanding these to include celestial motions of the Sun, Moon, and planets by 1000 BCE. The Messier (M) ...

Anyone who's ever marked a page in a catalog to remember to buy that perfect sweater -- only to lose that sweater among dozens of catalogs with dog-eared pages strewn on the living room floor -- will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sears offered live animals through its mail-order catalogs from 1956 to 1964. However, some versions of those catalogs — possibly ...