17 April 2009

City Directories on Internet Archive [Reference Shelf]

Periodically, I like to compile lists of available online resources for this blog, mostly because the web is a mess, and I love to organize information. I also actually refer to lists I have compiled myself, so it makes my own research a little more handy.

Today I am presenting a list of digitized city directories as available on Internet Archive. I limited this list to directories that give general directory to citizens of the locales-I have not included directories that were limited to businesses or business men; nor have I included professional directories like medical directories, etc. I'll save those for another post. Note that some of these books were uploaded to Internet Archive from the Google Books scans.

Researchers in Indiana and North Carolina are particularly lucky here, as the ACPL and UNC contributed a vast number of directories. There are smatterings from other states, both rural and urban.

As always, you can check my Google Books Index for ongoing cataloging of genealogy-oriented books from Google Books.

Arizona
Tucson:
* 1881


California
Los Angeles:
* 1915

Richmond:
* 1914-1915

Sacramento:
* 1868
* 1921

San Francisco:
* 1908
* 1915
* 1920
* 1921


Colorado

Denver:
* 1871 (Includes regions of Idaho, Nevada, etc.)


Connecticut
Hartford:
* 1799
* 1896
* 1897
* 1898
* 1899

New Haven:
* 1840
* 1842
* 1899


Georgia
Atlanta:
* 1867-1868

Augusta:
* 1859-1860


Illinois
Chicago:
* 1844
* 1855
* 1856
* 1863-1864
* Blue Book, 1883-1884

Galena:
* 1854

Paris:
* 1908-1909

Shelbyville:
* 1909

Urbana-Champaign:
* 1878-1879
* 1883-1884
* 1890
* 1893
* 1895-1896
* 1898
* 1900
* 1902-1903
* 1904
* 1906
* 1908
* 1910
* 1912
* 1914
* <1916
* 1918
* 1919-1920
* 1921
* 1922
* 1925
* 1927
* 1935
* 1936
* 1937
* 1940

Wheaton:
* 1915-1916


Indiana
Allen County:
* 1906

Bartholomew County:
* 1903-1904

Fort Wayne:
* 1860
* 1864-1865
* 1867
* 1868-1869
* 1870-1871
* 1874-1875
* 1875-1876
* 1876-1877
* 1877
* 1878
* 1882-1883
* 1883-1884
* 1885-1886
* 1888
* 1898
* 1901
* 1902
* 1903
* 1906
* 1907
* 1910 Parts I and II
* 1911
* 1912
* 1915 parts I and II
* 1916
* 1917
* 1918
* 1919

Hartford:
* 1895

Indianapolis:
* 1855
* 1857
* 1858
* 1865-1866
* 1867
* 1870
* 1875
* 1877
* 1889
* 1890
* 1891
* 1894
* 1899
* 1901
* 1902
* 1904
* 1906
* 1911
* 1912
* 1916
* 1918
* 1919
* 1921
* 1922

Kokomo:
* 1910

Lafayette:
* 1909-1910
* 1920, Parts I and II

Michigan City:
* 1893-1894
* 1909-1910

Richmond:
* 1857

South Bend:
* 1921

Valparaiso:
* 1893

Whitley County:
* 1897


Kansas
* 1916


Maine
Portland:
* 1912


Maryland
* 1858


Massachusetts
Boston:
* 1789, Volume I, Volume II, Volume III, A-K, L-Z
* 1916 Parts I and II
* 1956, Volume I, Volume II
* 1957, Volume I, Volume II
* 1958, Volume I, Volume II
* 1960, Volume I, Volume II
* 1961, Volume I, Volume II
* 1962, Volume I, Volume II
* 1963, Volume I, Volume II
* 1964 Volume I, Volume II
* 1965
* 1966
* 1967, Volume I, Volume II
* 1968, Volume I, Volume II
* 1969, Volume I, Volume II
* 1970, VOlume I, Volume II
* 1971, Volume I, Volume II
* 1972, Volume I, Volume II
* 1973, Volume I, Volume II
* 1974-1975, Volume I, Volume II

Lowell:
*1832
* 1834
* 1845
* 1851
* 1853
* 1861

Pepperell:
* 1907

Salem:
* 1857


Michigan
Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County:
* 1916

Detroit:
* 1845
* 1846

Saginaw:
* 1915

Union City:
* 1909


Minnesota
Minneapolis/St. Paul:
* 1885

Stillwater:
* 1876-1877



Missouri
Jefferson City:
* 1900


Nevada
Carson City, Reno and Washoe County:
* 1921

Virginia City, Gold Hill, Silver City, American City:
* 1864

* See also: Colorado


New Jersey
Newark:
* 1838-1839
* 1851-1852

New Brunswick:
* 1909-1910


New York
Albany:
* 1869

Brooklyn:
* 1912

Buffalo:
* 1832

Manhattan:
* 1837, Volume I, Volume II
* 1839
* 1853
* 1907
* 1914

* Social Registers, 1887 Volume I, Volume III, Volume IV, Volume V, Volume VI, Volume VII, Volume VIII

Plattsburgh:
* 1913

Schnectady:
* 1862-1863
* 1864

Utica:
* 1883


North Carolina (Note that these city directories have been organized by category and keyword on Internet Archive, therefore I have linked to the aggregate pages for these cities, and listed below the years available as of this posting).

Asheville:
* 1887, 1890, 1896-97, 1899-00, 1900-01, 1909, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1922

Burlington:
* 1920-21

Charlotte:
* 1875-76, 1905-06, 1907, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1920

Concord:
* 1908, 1913-14, 1916-17, 1920-21, 1922-23

Durham:
* 1887, 1923

Elizabeth City:
* 1923-1924

Fayetteville:
* 1915-1916

Gastonia:
* 1910-11, 1913-14, 1918-19, 1921-22, 1923-24

Goldsboro:
* 1916-17

Greenville:
* 1916-17

Hendersonville:
* 1915, 1921-22

Hickory:
* 1920-21

High Point:
* 1908, 1910-11, 1913, 1919, 1921-22, 1923-24

Kinston:
* 1923-24

Lexington:
* 1916-17

Lumberton:
* 1916-17

Monroe:
* 1922

New Bern:
* 1916-17, 1920-21

Raleigh:
* 1883, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1896-97, 1899-00, 1901, 1921

Salisbury:
(See Spencer)

Spencer:
* 1907-08, 1913-14, 1915-16, 1917, 1919-20, 1922-23

Statesville:
* 1916-17, 1922-23

Washington:
* 1916

Wilmington:
* 1865-66, 1871, 1877-78,1889, 1922

Winston-Salem:
* 1908, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1921, 1922, 1926, 1927


Ohio
Cincinnati:
* 1861

Cleveland:
* 1859-1860

Mount Vernon:
* 1876-1877

Sandusky:
* 1867
* 1877

Wooster:
* 1900


Oregon
Portland:
* 1956
* 1957
* 1959
* 1962


Pennsylvania
Sharon:
* 1919


South Carolina
Charleston:
* 1851
* 1852


Tennessee
Nashville:
* 1865


Utah
Salt Lake City:
* 1879-1880
* 1883-1884
* 1892-1893
* 1909


West Virginia
Parkersburg:
* 1907

1 comment:

Gini said...

Jennifer, this is amazing, thank you for the opportunity to have these resources available to us. I didn't find my brickwall ancestor but I enjoyed browsing and going thru. Thank you so much. I know this is a small organizational idea but I love spread sheets too! I have been working on a spread sheet for a "Blog log" there are so many genealogy blogs out there and I am getting most of them in my Google reader, but at times I would like to remember certain posts or ideas or comments so I decided I need a way to record that info, do you have any ideas in this area! Or perhaps you have already created one! I will go thru several and then days later tell a freind about something and think, what blog was that on! I figured we have a research log, why not a blog log!?