Mail Order Catalogues
This page shows some pages from mail order catalogues. A mail order catalogue is a published book or pamphlet containing a list or products for sale either by post or from a general store. They were very common in the 19th and early 20th centuries when shops did not sell as wide a range of products as they do today. They were very popular in countries such as America, Canada and Australia and throughout the British Empire where people wanted to buy the latest fashions and gadgets from Europe. Mail order catalogues were the Amazon.com and eBay of the past. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_order_catalogue