All its assets are being liquidated, save for some historic artifacts that may go to museums, such as the first retail catalog, a single sheet from 1872 with 169 items. “Montgomery Ward lost its ...

Montgomery Ward Inc., the country’s first catalog retailer, said Thursday it will close up shop after 128 years in business and numerous attempts to reinvent itself. Just 18 months after ...

What: A 1919 Montgomery Ward catalog for sale for $125 at the Canton Preservation Society store. It's among a few stacks of old mail-order catalogs for sale there now. Where: The store is at ...

Traveling salesman Aaron Montgomery Ward had founded his mail order firm in 1872 in Chicago. Ward and two partners issued their first catalog that year featuring 163 items. By 1883, the Ward ...

Montgomery Ward Bankruptcy Robert talks with George Whalin, President of Retail Management Consultants, about Montgomery Ward, which announced today that it will shut down and file for bankruptcy ...

In 1939, Robert L. May was working as an in-house advertising copywriter at Montgomery Ward, a Chicago-based department store chain and catalog company. May dreamed of writing the great American ...

That’s the key to the Montgomery Ward warehouse that rose ... It wasn’t the first building that Aaron Ward’s catalog company placed here. It was actually the third—but with 2.1 million ...

The Montgomery Ward administration building and the original catalog house building across the street were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The condo association is ...

28 -- Retailer Montgomery Ward Inc. is shutting downafter nearly ... until 1886 and didn’t put out itsfirst general merchandise catalog until a decade after that.