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St. Joseph City DirectoryEntry/Object ID
2023.32.304Scope and Content
The 1956 St. Joseph, (Buchanan County, Mo.) City Directory. A large hard-bound book with gray covers and maroon spine with advertisements in, out and through the publication. It bears the © copyright, 1956, by R. L. Polk & Co., Kansas City, Missouri.Context
There are six major departments and each department begins with Page 1.
I. THE ALPHAETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns is printed on white paper. It shows the name, marital status, occupation and address of each adult resident; and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation in the city. There are 533 pages.
II. THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE printed on pink paper. The numbered streets are arranged in numerical order, followed by named streets in alphabetical order under the name of each street and the names of the householders and concerns are placed opposite the numbers. Intersecting streets appear at their respective crossing points on each street. There are 243 pages.
III. THE NUMERICAL TRLRPHONE DIRECTORY, is on blue paper. There are 57 pages.
IV. THE BUYERS' GUIDE is printed on gold paper. It contains the advertisements of leading manufacturing, business and professional interests in St. Joseph. The advertisements are indexed under headings descriptive of the business represented. This section contains 68 pages.
V. THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is printed on canary yellow paper. It lists the names of all business and professional concerns in alphabetical order under appropriate headings. There are 52 pages.
VI. THE BUCHANAN COUNTY TAXPAYERS DIRECTORY is printed on white paper. (This section seems to have been torn out)Lexicon
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7" X 10½" X 2"