(BUSINESS DIRECTORIES.) CHARLESTON, S.C. Walsh's Charleston, South Carolina 1905 City Directory. Erratic pagination: following 44 pages of engraved advertisements, title-page and table of contents, the text begins with page 75-592, followed by the 'Colored Department,' 433-566; 567-598 special section of businesses. Large, thick 8vo, original printed cloth-covered boards, re-backed with black cloth; advertising on the page edges, end-papers and paste-downs; tips and spine extremities rubbed, old library bookplate and a couple of small stamps. Charleston, 1904
This, the 1905 Charleston Directory, is one of the first to have both a 'Colored Department, with 133 pages of listings on red paper; as well as a City Street Department (pages 101-184), printed on red paper which lists the names of residents by street address (with a 'c' after the name for Colored residents).
