University of Virginia Library

Section I. Directories.

A number of libraries, especially public libraries, have
files of local city directories. Richmond directories, for

example, have been collected by the Richmond Public Library, the
State Library, the University of Richmond, and the Virginia Historcal
Society. The Roanoke Public Library and the Virginia Historical
Society also contain scattering examples of other city
directories as well as the local publications.

At the State Library there are Richmond directories from
1850 to date, the Virginia Directory from 1852 to 1917, and incomplete
files for Danville, Lynchburg, Norfolk, Petersburg, and
Roanoke; among places outside of Virginia this library has runs
for the District of Columbia and for Newark, New Jersey, with
scattered volumes from other localities. This collection contains
approximately 500 volumes.

There is a heterogeneous collection of city, county, state,
and more specialized directories at the University of Virginia.
The General Library has various city directories, college and fraternity
directories, and directories covering various professions.
The Medical Library has the American Medical Directory, Polk's
Medical Register, and various state directories. The Bureau of
Public Administration Library has an almost complete collection of
state directories, with a scattering of county directories; its
collection of directories of agencies engaged in public administration
in the United States is large, and its foreign directories
covering the same field is representative.