Research Catalog

Title

Polk's Buffalo (New York) city directory ... including Kenmore [microform].

Publication

Buffalo, N.Y. : Polk-Clement directory Co. [etc.], 18 -1932.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Publication Date

-1932.

Description

v. fold. maps.

Former Title

• Directory for the village of Buffalo 1828
• Directory for the city of Buffalo 1832
• Walker's Buffalo city directory 1842, 1844
• Commercial advertiser directory for the city of Buffalo 1847/48, 1850/51-1861
• Buffalo city directory 1848/49, 1869-1883, 1885-1895, 1923-1926
• Thomas' Buffalo city directory 1862-1868
• Times Buffalo city directory 1884/5
• Buffalo directory 1896-1922
• Buffalo (New York) city directory 1927
• Polk's Buffalo (New York) city directory 1928-1929

Subject

Buffalo (N.Y.) > Directories

Note

• The issue for 1876 includes a reprint of the first directory of Buffalo.
• "Buffalo's first directory [was pub. in 1828] The second did not appear until 1832. No Buffalo directories were issued in the years 1829, '30, '33, '34, '43, or '46.--Severance, F.H. Pamphlets and books printed in Buffalo prior to 1850. (Buffalo hist soc. Publ. v. 6, 1903) p. 566. Two directories were published in 1848: The Commercial advertiser directory for 1848/49; and the Buffalo city directory for 1848/49, comp. by T.S. Cutting.
• Historical papers are prefixed to several issues, as follows: 1862, A sketch of the early history of Buffalo, written by G.W. Clinton in 1847; A glance at its progress down to the present time, by S.B. Hunt-- 1863, Buffalo, past and present, By G.H. Salisbury.--1864, The physiognomy of Buffalo ... by G.W. Hosmer; The history of our lake commerce, by E.P. Dorr.--1865, The old ferry at Black Rock, by C.D. Norton; A sketch of the life and character of the late Henry Daw, by H.W. Rogers.--1866, Buffalo: its manufacturing, commercial and business position, by G.H. Salisbury; A sketch relative to the early residents of Buffalo.--1867, Sewerage and sanitary science, by O.G. Steele; History of grain elevators, by J. Dart; Early history of Grand island and the city of Ararat, by L.F. Allen.
• Publishers: 1832, L.P. Crary.--18 H.N. Walker.--1847/48, Jewett, Thomas & Co. and T.S. Cutting.--1850/51-1854, Jewett, Thomas & Co.--1855-1856, Thomas & Lathrops.--1857-1860, E.R. Jewett & Co.--1861, R. Wheeler & Co.--1862-1864, E.A. Thomas.--1865-1866, C.F.S. Thomas.--1867-1868, Thomas, Howard & Johnson.--1869-1874, Warren, Johnson & Co.--1875-1883, 1885 --1905, The Courier Company.--1884/5, N.E. Mack.--1906-19 The Courier company of Buffalo.--1917-1922, J.W. Clement Co.--1923-1932, Polk-Clement Directory Co.
• Compilers: 1848-49, T.S.Cutting; 1882-1883, 1885-1894, George Whitcomb; 1884/5, M.J. Boeschel; 1895, E.B. Townsend; 1896-1899, A.A. Woltge.

Call Number

*XMG-156

OCLC

NYPG87-S1921

Title

Polk's Buffalo (New York) city directory ... including Kenmore [microform].

Imprint

Buffalo, N.Y. : Polk-Clement directory Co. [etc.], 18 -1932.

Local Note

Collective record for Library holdings of Buffalo directories, 1828-1932. A directory for the village of Buffalo (1828) is also cataloged separately.

Continued By

Polk's Buffalo (Erie County) city directory

Research Call Number

*XMG-156 Library has: 1828-1860

*ZAN-G67 Library has: 1861-1960