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

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Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1879
This directory contains an introduction entitled St. Louis, Origin and Growth featuring statistics related to growth, public improvements, and finances, followed by an index to advertisers, a street directory, a St. Louis City residential and business directory, and a city and county record listing civic and social institutions for the year 1879.
Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1880
This directory contains an introduction entitled St. Louis, featuring statistics related to growth, public improvements, and finances, followed by an index to advertisers, a street directory, a St. Louis City residential and business directory, and a city and county record listing civic and social institutions for the year 1880.
Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1881
This directory contains an introduction entitled St. Louis, featuring statistics related to population growth, followed by an index to advertisers, a street directory, a St. Louis City residential and business directory, and a city and county record listing civic and social institutions for the year 1881.
Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1882
This directory contains an introduction, a "Progress" section featuring statistics related to population growth, followed by an index to advertisers, a street directory, a St. Louis City residential and business directory, and a city and county record listing civic and social institutions for the year 1882.
Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1883. (For the Year Ending April 1st, 1884.)
This directory contains an introduction followed by an index to advertisers, a street directory, a St. Louis City residential and business directory, a survey map, and a city and county record listing civic and social institutions for the year 1883.
Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1884. (For the Year Ending April 1st, 1885.)
This directory contains an introduction followed by an index to advertisers, a street directory, a St. Louis City residential and business directory, a survey map, and a city and county record listing civic and social institutions for the year 1884.
Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1885. (For the Year Ending April 1st, 1886.)
This directory contains an introduction followed by an index to advertisers, a street directory, a St. Louis City residential and business directory, a survey map, and a city and county record listing civic and social institutions for the year 1885.
Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1886. (For the Year Ending April 1st, 1887.)
This directory contains a section entitled Progress of St. Louis featuring statistics related to the growth of St. Louis, followed by an index to advertisers, a street directory, a St. Louis City residential and business directory, a survey map, and a city and county record listing civic and social institutions for the year 1886.
Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1887. (For the Year Ending April 1st, 1888.)
This directory contains an index to advertisers, a street directory, a St. Louis City residential and business directory, and a city and county record listing civic and social institutions for the year 1887.
Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1888. (For the Year Ending April 1st, 1889.)
This directory contains an introduction St. Louis featuring population and new building construction statistics followed by an index to advertisers, a street directory, a St. Louis City residential and business directory, and a city and county record listing civic and social institutions for the year 1888.
Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1889. (For the Year Ending April 1st, 1890.)
This directory contains an index to advertisers, a street directory, a St. Louis City residential and business directory, and a city and county record listing civic and social institutions for the year 1889.
Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1890. (For the Year Ending April 1st, 1891.)
This directory contains an introduction entitled St. Louis in 1890 featuring population and business statistics followed by an index to advertisers and business headings, a street directory, a St. Louis City residential and business directory, and a city and county record listing civic and social institutions for the year 1890.
Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1891. (For the Year Ending April 1st, 1892.)
The 20th volume, this directory contains an introduction entitled St. Louis in 1891 featuring population and business statistics followed by an index to advertisers and business headings, a street directory, a St. Louis City residential and business directory, and a city and county record listing civic and social institutions for the year 1891.
Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1892. (For the Year Ending April 1st, 1893.)
This directory contains an introduction entitled St. Louis--1892 featuring statistics related to growth and finances, followed by an index to advertisements and business headings, a street directory, a St. Louis City residential and business directory, and a city and county record listing civic and social institutions for the year 1892.
Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1893 (For the Year Ending April 1st, 1894.)
This directory contains an introduction featuring statistics related to growth and finances, followed by an index to advertisements and business headings, a street directory, a St. Louis City residential and business directory, and a city and county record listing civic and social institutions for the year 1893.
Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1894 (For the Year Ending April 1st, 1895.)
This directory contains an introduction featuring statistics related to growth and finances, followed by an index to advertisements and business headings, a street directory, a St. Louis City residential and business directory, and a city and county record listing civic and social institutions for the year 1894.
Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1895 (For the Year Ending April 1st, 1896)
Being a complete index to the residents of the entire city, and a classified business directory, to which is added an appendix containing useful information of the churches, societies, railroads, city, state, and other miscellaneous matters; also, a newly revised street and avenue directory.
Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1896 (For the Year Ending April 1st, 1897)
Being a complete index to the residents of the entire city, and a classified business directory to which is added an appendix containing useful information of the churches, banks, insurance companies, city, state, and other miscellaneous matters; also a street and avenue directory., The digitization of this directory was made possible through the support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the Missouri State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.
Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1897 (For the Year Ending April 1st, 1898)
Being a complete index to the residents of the entire city, and a classified business directory, to which is added an appendix containing useful information of the churches, societies, railroads, city, state, and other miscellaneous matters, also a newly revised street and avenue directory., The digitization of this directory was made possible through the support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the Missouri State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.
Gould's St. Louis Directory, for 1898 (For the Year Ending April 1st, 1899)
Being a complete index to the residents of the entire city, and a classified business directory, to which is added an appendix containing useful information of the churches, societies, railroads, city, state, and other miscellaneous matters, also a newly revised street and avenue directory., The digitization of this directory was made possible through the support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the Missouri State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.
Gould's St. Louis Red-Blue Book for 1918
Containing a list of incorporated companies with names of officers, capital stock and year of incorporation, a numerically arranged telephone directory with names of subscribers to each of the telephone systems, a complete street and avenue guide including a directory of householders, a list of clubs with names of officers and members followed by their business addresses, the names of all state and city officials together with other miscellaneous information., The Red-Blue Book series from the Polk-Gould Directory Company combines the long running Red Book and Blue Book series that the Gould Directory Company published until 1916. The Blue Book was a directory for polite society with lists of social clubs and well-to-do citizens while the Red Book was long known as Gould's Commercial Register and maintained information about St. Louis businesses.
Missouri State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1876-1877
This Gazetteer features an alphabetical listing of villages, towns, and cities in the state of Missouri for the years 1876 and 1877. The listing contains the name of each place accompanied by a short description of its location, principle railways, mail services, and primary exports. Beneath each entry is located an alphabetical business directory. In addition to the alphabetical listing, businesses are arranged in a classified directory after the gazetteer.
Missouri State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1881-1882
This Gazetteer features an alphabetical listing of villages, towns, and cities in the state of Missouri for the years 1881 and 1882. The listing contains the name of each place accompanied by a short description of its location, principle railways, mail services, and primary exports. Beneath each entry is located an alphabetical business directory. In addition to the alphabetical listing, businesses are arranged in a classified directory after the gazetteer. This volume is incomplete and ends at TAI-TAR in the classified business directory.
Missouri State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1893-1894
This Gazetteer features an alphabetical listing of villages, towns, and cities in the state of Missouri for the years 1893 and 1894. The listing contains the name of each place accompanied by a short description of its location, principle railways, mail services, and primary exports. Beneath each entry is located an alphabetical business directory. In addition to the alphabetical listing, businesses are arranged in a classified directory., The digitization of this directory was made possible through the support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the Missouri State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.
Pen and Sunlight Sketches of St. Louis
A promotional directory featuring illustrations and descriptions of the major buildings, monuments, and businesses in St. Louis for the year 1892, as well as a brief history of the city's founding and development.
Pictorial St. Louis
Police Guide and Directory of St. Louis
A tourist guide and directory for the year 1884, it is authored by a nine year veteran of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Force and contains maps of commuter railroad lines, descriptions of resorts and businesses along each of these lines, and illustrations of prominent buildings and attractions throughout the city.
Report of the Equal Suffrage League of St. Louis 1910-1911
This report of the Equal Suffrage League of St. Louis contains a roster of names and addresses of members for the years 1910-1911.

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