(BUSINESS DIRECTORIES SOUTH CAROLINA) Baldwin and Southerns

Sale 2308 - Lot 233

Price Realized: $ 1,800

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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

(BUSINESS DIRECTORIES--SOUTH CAROLINA.) Baldwin and Southern's Charleston South Carolina City Directory, Master Edition 1944-1945. 1272 pages. Large, thick 4to. Original cloth-backed red cloth covered boards, printed in gilt; rear cover showing some discoloration from damp-staining, not affecting the contents. Charleston, 1944

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first edition. with a separate seventy-one page directory for Charleston's "Colored" populationwhich was greatly expanded due to wartime ship production. Next to each name is their occupation, which in many cases is related to the shipyards, or other naval related jobs. The 3000 acre yards employed over 25,000 civilian workers, building destroyers and destroyer escorts. It also was the arrival point for disembarking the wounded brought back home. Strangely enough, OCLC located no copies of this, or any of the three preceding directories produced by Baldwin and Southern.