Directories and Phone Books

Bacone Oklahoma: Bacone College, 1969. White cloth hardcover with embossed red cover title and emblem, color photo endpapers. 100 pages, illustrated with B&W photos and drawings by student Gordon D. Meely. Students and activities from 1968 at this Baptist College on an American Indian reservation. (Plenty of Gormans, Yazzis, Begays, etc. in the student body.) School mission statements appear naively archaic. Cover has a little faint scuffing and surface soil, overall bright and very clean internally. DIRECTORIES 3073. Annual Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Condition. Illus. by B&W Illustrations. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Directory. more information

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Illinois: State of Illinois, 1957. Gray paper wraps printed in green. 24 pages listing counties and incorporated municipalities in Illinois in 1957. Tables give name of municipality, city or town, population, county, date of incorporation (etc.), plus former names where applicable (in footnotes). Faint aging to covers, all else very clean and sound. DIR 1989. No Edition Stated. Paperbound. Very Good Plus/No Dust Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Booklet. more information

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Washington: Pacfic Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1953. Faded green card covers, stapled with hanging hole in upper left corner, about 9x6 inches. Sections for Bellingham and Lummi Island, yellow pages with ads, center section with B&W photos commemorating Washington's centennial. Light wear, yellow pages faded, some names and numbers written in appropriate boxes in front. Not many towns any more with this size phone book! DIRECT 2106. First Edition. Paperbound. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Telephone Book. more information

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Chicago: Dry Goods Reporter, 1928. Pocket-sized 6 x 3.5 inch paper-bound directory. Red-black-white printed paper over canvas wraps. 276 pages of Chicago businesses including department stores, dry goods, general store, ready-to-wear, milinery. Appears to be mainly clothing and millinery including children's, women's, men's fashions and accessories. Store display items as well. Colored page sections. Very clean, a faint crease in upper cover corner, light line where cover folds open, very slight edgewear. Handsome! DIR 1991. First Edition. Paperbound. Very Good/No Dust Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Ads. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Directory. more information

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Boston:: R.L. Polk & Co., 1964. Paperbound, (about 6.75 X 5") heavy paper wraps printed in red, green and black with pleasing shield and arrow motif. 217 pp plus blank memo pages. Contains one dorky area map, lots of information on the City of Roses at mid-century. Includes outlying areas such as Beaverton, Lake Oswego, Milwaukie, suburbs. A must for cabbies -- lists street locations and intersections. Rubbed to color loss along spine edges, very light wear at page edges. Rubber stamp inside front wrap, also a strip of surface loss and some tape remnants on inside front wrap that indicate removal of some item. (This does not affect front of cover.) This is a very attractive piece of Portland/transportation ephemera, with green arrows and shield and B&W printing on red background. (More of a 1930s look.). Paperbound. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Directory. more information

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San Francisco California: Pacific Bell Telephone and Telegraphy Company About 12 x 9.5 inches, printed on rather poor quality pink paper. Note: this is a business, not a personal, directory. Perhaps a very early version of today's "yellow pages." Not dated, but images of dress and hair styles, telephone switchboard, and instruments such as typewriters indicate 1915 or slightly earlier. In addition, all vans and wagons are depicted with teams of draft horses,except for Bekins which shows elephants in harness. (A display ad in half-tone shows a Bekins Van & Storage unit pulled by actual elephants. I can't find any evidence that they actually used elephants, but I suspect that this question will now linger in my mind until I am forced to resolve it. If anyone knows one way or the other for sure, please let me know.) Bekins states in their company history that all horse-drawn vans had been eliminated by the end of World War I, so they would certainly gain bragging rights by picturing motor-driven vans if they had them.at the time this directory was issued. Thereis likely a plain paper front cover missing since there is a detached rear plain paper wrap. The book consists of 85 pages in three columns, There are a number of B&W illustrated ads for varioius companies. The old threads that held this together have long since departed, although pages appear to be intact. The top page is pretty rough around the edges with a number of corner and edge chips, but no text missing. The entire piece is fragile and should be subjected to archival repair and storage. What a fascinating piece of San Francisco history, and a great reference tool! NOTE: The scan does not show the entire page, the item is wider than the scanbed. Age discoloration is actually less pronounced than shows in the scan. Darn scanners. DIRECTORIES 3908. Regular Edition. Paperbound. Good Condition. About 12 x 9,5 Inchs. Directory. more information

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Massachusettes: Shoe Trades Publishing Co., 1935. Red leather, slightly flexible covers printed in gilt, all edges red. 272 pages containing a list of shoe manufacturers in teh US and Canada, factory locations, the kind of shoes made, the average daily output, names of buyers and superintendents, designers, and business information. A vest-pocket-sized reference. Some scuffs to leather, gilt dulled, internally clean and tight. DIRECT 2383. Edition Not Stated. Hard Cover. Very Good Condition.. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Directory. more information

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