Flickr user BryantSpokane scanned and posted “choice pages” from a 1972 Stromberg’s Chicks & Pets Unlimited catalog. Stromberg’s apparently used to mail-order live chickens, chinchillas, ferrets, armadillos, skunks, badgers, beavers, possums, prairie dogs, and other critters. It’s an historical document that manages to be exciting and queasy at the same time — you can imagine the trembling excitement of a kid in 1972 contemplating this mail-order menagerie, and then imagine the plight of some poor armadillos and badgers and such stuffed into cardboard boxes and sent through the post. Yikes!
Stromberg’s Chicks & Pets Unlimited 1972
(via Neatorama)