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1923-24 antique SANFORD SPRINGVALE maine CITY DIRECTORY RESIDENTS BUSINESS ADS
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Description
Original 1923–1924 hardcover Directory of Sanford and Springvale, Maine, published by the Portland Directory Company, Fred L. Tower, proprietor, Portland, Maine. Copyright 1923.
Measures approximately 6.25 x 9 inches. The directory extends through at least page 327, including extensive period advertising.
An outstanding genealogical and local history reference documenting the residents, businesses, occupations, streets, institutions, and commercial life of Sanford and Springvale during the early 1920s.
The directory records 6,827 names, compared with 4,593 in the previous 1921–1922 edition.
Contents include:
Alphabetical residential directory listing individuals, occupations, employers, spouses, residences, and boarding addresses.
Classified business directory identifying merchants, manufacturers, tradesmen, and professional establishments.
Street directory, including historical street names and locations.
Town officers, municipal government, police and fire departments.
Churches, clergy, schools, libraries, cemeteries, and fraternal lawyers, banks, newspapers, and transportation services.
Lists of additions, removals, and changes in residents.
Extensive indexes of advertisers and businesses.
Advertising for businesses in Sanford, Springvale, Portland, and surrounding communities.
Especially interesting is the extensive period advertising, including advertisements for Chevrolet, Cadillac, Hudson, Essex, Maxwell, Chalmers, Nash, Dort, Studebaker, and GMC motor vehicles.
Among the numerous businesses represented are Sanford Motor Company, Sanford Garage, Sanford National Bank, Sanford Trust Company, Sanford Pharmacy, J. P. Vallely Motor Company, Sanford Carriage Company, The Averill Press, Hutchins Studio, Roberts Office Supply Company, Quality Market, and Tanguay Bros.
Additional advertising features contractors, lumber dealers, clothing merchants, automobile repair shops, plumbers, restaurants, tailors, banks, photographers, and other businesses.
Illustrated advertisements include automobiles, buildings, office furniture, machinery, and other products of the period.
The residential listings are particularly valuable for family research, frequently identifying married couples, occupations, workplaces, and exact street addresses. Numerous entries document employees of the local textile mills, offering a valuable picture of Sanford and Springvale's industrial and working-class history.
Condition: Original hardcover binding with substantial age-related wear, rubbing, bumped corners, and deterioration along the cover edges and spine. Interior pages show age toning, occasional spotting and handling wear. Some pages exhibit separation or weakness along the inner binding, with exposed stitching visible. The directory remains a substantial historical reference. Please examine photographs carefully for condition and completeness.
An excellent original resource for genealogists, Maine historians, local history collectors, antique automobile advertising collectors, and researchers of early twentieth-century New England communities.
Authentic period piece related to family, historyor local heritage - well-suited for historical collections, genealogical /genealogy research, or museum acquisition.Vintage or Antique.
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