Mail-Order Department Catalogue No. 5, Spring and Summer 1899. A.M. Williams & Co., The Dalles, Oregon, Eastern Oregon's Greatest Mail Order House
The Dalles, OR: Times-Mountaineer Book and Commercial Printing, 1899.
11" x 8.5", pp 122, [1], including index and local ads, with original unused order form at the front. Some creasing and tears to wrappers, minor water damage to bottom margin, otherwise very good. A.M. Williams was a general dry goods store founded in 1870, at which time it was just the second business in The Dalles. This illustrated mail-order catalogue is devoted primarily to clothing, shoes, and related accessories and to fabric and sewing items, but also offers rugs, bed and table linens, towels, jewelry, pocket knives, trunks, telescopes, and other miscellaneous dry goods. Advertisements from other Dalles businesses at the end offer farm machinery, bicycles, cameras, hotel accommodations, and steamer transport to and from Portland on the Columbia River. We find no individual A.M. Williams catalogues in OCLC, but note that the Oregon Historical Society holds the company's records.
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