St. Louis City Directories, Gazetteers, Rosters, and Guides

This collection contains resources that cover the people and places in the city of St. Louis, including but not limited to residential, business, and street directories, membership rosters for organizations, clubs, and social societies, and descriptive guidebooks of notable residents, businesses, institutions, and landmarks. A comprehensive list of directories for St. Louis available at other institutions can be accessed at List of St. Louis City Directories, Gazetteers, Rosters, and Guides or at this list created by the Missouri History Museum. Washington University in St. Louis has a particularly strong collection digitized as part of its St. Louis Circuit Court Records Project.
St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis
Wilson's History and Directory for Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois
Published in 1875, this directory contains a condensed history of Missouri beginning with Spanish settlement in Florida, descriptions of counties, towns, and villages in Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois with a listing of their business owners, population figures, distances between towns, and civil officers. It also contains a U.S. legal directory, hotel directory, and brief history and partial business directory of St. Louis.

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