Great Fishing Tackle Catalogs of the Golden Age

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Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 1999-04-01
Publisher(s): The Lyons Press
List Price: $19.90

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Summary

Here is a marvelously full and nostalgic collection of the most interesting pages from such outstanding old catalogs of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as those of Orvis, Abercrombie & Fitch, Sears Roebuck, Montgomery Ward, William Mills, The House of Hardy, L.L. Bean, and scores of others. Illustrated.

Table of Contents

Preface iv
Acknowledgments v
``Only Yesterday'' vi
Pre-1890
1(64)
J. Cheek (1839)
3(3)
John Krider (1878)
6(2)
Dame, Stoddard & Kendall
8(13)
The Angler's Guide Book (1886)
21(2)
The Sportsman's Journal (1886)
23(1)
Thos. H. Chubb (1886)
24(16)
Charles F. Orvis (1889)
40(25)
1890--1899
65(88)
Thos. H. Chubb (1890)
67(11)
The Yorkshire Anglers's Guide (1893)
78(4)
William Mills & Son (1894)
82(29)
Montgomery Ward & Co. (1894-95)
111(3)
Foster's (1895)
114(15)
The Wilkinson Co. (1896)
129(17)
Abbey & Imbrie (1897)
146(7)
1900--1909
153(50)
Sears, Roebuck & Co. (1902)
155(3)
William Mills & Son (1902)
158(7)
H. H. Kiffe Company (1903)
165(5)
Charles F. Orvis (1905)
170(14)
William Mills & Son (1906)
184(11)
Kelso & Frost (1906 ?)
195(1)
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (1909)
196(7)
1910--1919
203(98)
The Angler's Guide (1910)
205(3)
New York Sporting Goods Co. (1910)
208(1)
The W. J. Jamison Company (1911)
209(4)
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (1911)
213(12)
William Mills & Son (1912)
225(12)
Abbey & Imbrie (1913)
237(6)
Hardy Brothers Ltd. (1914)
243(28)
Horrocks-Ibbotson Co. (1914)
271(8)
Field & Stream (1915)
279(7)
Sportsman's Handbook (1916-1917)
286(3)
Marshall Field & Company (1917)
289(6)
Edward vom Hofe & Co. (1919)
295(6)
After 1920
301(2)
Abbey & Imbrie (1920)
303(2)
Forest and Stream (1921)
305(4)
Abbey & Imbrie (1923)
309(6)
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (1923)
315(5)
Von Lengerke & Detmold Inc. (1926)
320(4)
The Creek Chub Bait co. (1926)
324(2)
Abbey & Imbrie (1926)
326(2)
Chubb Rods (1927)
328(3)
L. L. Bean (1931)
331(9)
Payne Rods
340

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