(BUSINESS DIRECTORIES VIRGINIA) BERRYMAN GORDON C Compiler

Sale 2308 - Lot 235

Price Realized: $ 1,320

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A MOST UNUSUAL DIRECTORY (BUSINESS DIRECTORIES--VIRGINIA.) BERRYMAN, GORDON C., Compiler. Directory of Surry County, Virginia 1932--1933. Full-page illustration of the 1933 Ford Eight Cylinder Sedan and other smaller advertisements. 96 pages. 4to, original pictorial wrappers; covers somewhat discolored and lightly worn; faint "tide-line" throughout at the bottom margin. Loosely laid in is a slip "This book is sent to you with the compliments of the advertisers and the compiler." Surry County: Surry County Directory Company, 1932

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a most unusual directory!Arranged by race, but strangely so: "White Land Owners," " Colored Land Owners," White Automobile Owners," "Colored Automobile Owners." Not only is this directory unusual in that regard; it also breaks down, by number, the types of automobiles owned by Surry County inhabitants under "Classified Automobile Owners" alphabetically: 1 Auburn, 6 Buicks, 214 Chevrolets, 14 Chryslers, 13 Dodges, 1 De Soto, 6 Durants, and so forth; with Ford way out in front with 457 vehicles. There were 27 distinct automobile brands, including one Stutz Bearcat, and one Pierce Arrow. When the Great Depression was finally over, at least several no longer existed.