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Products Available: SpyralSearch offers City Directories and Telephone Books from the 1930's to 1970's archived on CD Rom in pdf format. Imagine the space you can save by not having a collection of old and musty directories in your home or office.
Features: High quality - 300 dpi resolution of original pages in pdf format. Old reference sources have now been maximized far beyond their original value and have been transformed into powerful research tools with endless search capabilties. You can now have this unique resource available on your own computer and avoid trips and calls for lookups at the library. Old directories and telephone books have been scanned, page by page onto cd's so you can review the actual copy of the directory. But better yet - all the text is fully searchable by keywords such as name, occupation, business, street name, address, phone number, etc. using the search feature in Adobe® Reader®.
City Directories - Typical Features:
Residences & Businesses – Alphabetical Listings:
Head of Household - Spouse - Adult Children
Roomers - Occupations - Employer's name
Owner or Manager’s name
Street Guide - Listed by street names:
Head of household's name - Cross Streets
Numerical Telephone Numbers
The early form of "Caller I.D."
Yellow Pages - Alphabetical by business type
Classified Buyer’s Guide
Telephone Books - Typical Contents:
White Pages – Alphabetical Business and Residences. Selected occupations are sometimes listed, for example: Doctor, Lawyer, Real Estate Agent, Insurance Agent
Yellow Pages – Business Types – ie Insurance, Automobiles
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Reverse Telephone & Address Indexes are usually not present in telephone books, however you may use the Adobe® Reader® search tool to find any individual, even by their first name, living on a certain street, or with the same telephone number, etc.
TRY IT OUT with this sample from one of our directories so you can see for yourself
the quality of the scans and how the zoom & search tools work.
