Christopher,
Primary Source Media had a marvelous collection of city directories on line. It was possible to search across time periods and localities in one search. I'm very familiar with the product, as I wrote one of the two introductory essays.
The scans are now in the hands of Ancestry. The company has been adding those directories, bit-by-bit, to their website. Their search engine pales compared to PSM's. Ancestry doesn't have all the search fields or the content, such as ads and maps.
As I recall, Google has a cache of the homepage still available.
A sad loss it is.
Best regards,
Leslie Corn, M.A., F.G.B.S.
Professional Genealogist
Genealogical Research, Due Diligence, & Missing Heirs
New York, NY
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Sent: Jan 26, 2005 9:43 AM
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Subject: Re: 1946 Recording Studio
In a message dated 1/26/05 9:29:00 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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> At one time, the city directories for NYC were available online.
If this or any subscriber is familiar with any 20th century city directories
posted on-line, now or at any time in the past, I would be interested to hear
from then.
Christopher Gray
Author, "New York Streetscapes", published May 2003 by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Office for Metropolitan History
246 West 80th Street, #8, NYC 10024
212-799-0520 fax -0542
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