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The E-Sylum: Volume 4, Number 46, November 11, 2001, Article 8 LARGEST COLLECTION OF U.S. CITY DIRECTORIES? Inspired by last week's item on numismatic research by Dick Johnson, Ron Benice writes: "I'd like to nominate another candidate for the "largest collection of city directories." The Library of Congress in Washington D.C. has a huge collection. On one level of stacks that runs an entire city block they have original directories from what appears to be almost every place and every year. They also have telephone directories -- worldwide -- going back to the beginning of telephone number directories. They also have a complete year set of Dun and Bradstreet (initially separately and then together) business directories for the whole country on microfilm. I had access to roam the stacks freely when researching both editions of my book "Alaska Tokens". Unfortunately, they no longer permit outside researchers to access the stacks, but they'll bring out whatever you request, including many directories that are in the stacks but not in the catalog. Working from old-fashioned hard copy books is faster and easier on the eyes."

Wayne Homren, Editor

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