[PW] Access to old telephone directory...?

[Dennis Lien]

At 01:15 PM 2/17/2007, you wrote:
>Just a couple thoughts hoping that Connecticut might correlate to 
>practices in my neck of the woods (NV)...
>
>The CT State Library website says they have "an extensive collection of 
>Connecticut [city] directories from the early nineteenth century through 
>ca. 1992 and a microfiche collection of directories from throughout the US 
>to ca. 1870".
>
>Also, around here, the state historical society has old city directories 
>and phone books.  The CT HS doesn't mention them on their website, but 
>that doesn't mean they don't hold some.


Or a local (city or county) historical society.

http://noahwebsterhouse.org/aboutus.html

(this is also homepage for the West Hartford Historical Society, but most
of the links seem to be "under construction")


http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/govtinfo/ConnState/connhistsoc.html


Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu