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(BUSINESS DIRECTORIES--MARYLAND.) Houston's New, Improved and Enlarged Baltimore City Directory: To which is Appended A Business Directory of this City and State. . . Numerous engraved advertisements; several inserted pieces of advertising. 582, [1]-122, [1]-25 pages, plus 4 unnumbered leaves of advertisements on tinted paper. Large, thick 4to, Library of Congress duplicate in later Library of Congress buckram binding with small bookplate and stamp. Baltimore: Houston & Co., (1867)
first edition of one of the earliest city guides to list its colored residents and their businesses in a separate section. Houston's contains forty-seven pages of "Colored Persons," an exceptional directory within this larger directory. Baltimore's free black community was the largest in the nation at this time. While many men and women were employed as domestics in one capacity or another, there are numerous listings of businesses such as the Bailey brothers, tavern owners, William Becker, a piano maker, James Tumey "coffee roaster," John Conklin, cigar-maker, or this intriguing one "Samuel Pritchard, Ice Cream and Oysters." Many men, apparently Civil War veterans are simply listed as "soldier" or "sailor." A valuable prime resource for genealogical study. rare, only two copies located: Library of Congress and New York Public Library.
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