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
Edwards' Descriptive Gazetteer and Commercial Directory of the Mississippi River
Edwards' Descriptive Gazetteer covers the businesses, trades, ports, and telegraphs for the towns and cities along the Mississippi River in 1866.
Stranger's Guide to St. Louis
WHAT TO SEE AND HOW TO SEE IT, IN AND AROUND THE CITY, COMPRISING NOTICES OF EVERY OBJECT OF INTEREST TO STRANGERS INCLUDING public buildings, churches, hotels, public halls, places of amusement and recreation, parks, gardens, libraries, reading rooms, literary institutions, etc., etc., WITH CITY MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

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