Pennsylvania Directories

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Resources for Pennsylvania Directories
Directories of heads of households have been published for major cities in Pennsylvania.

Directories Online

 * Fold3.com ($) has Philadelphia City Directories 1785, 1791, 1793-1922 (7 yrs. missing) and Pittsburgh City Directories 1861-1923 (3 yrs. missing) available online.
 * Ancestry.com ($) has Pennsylvania directories available online in its U.S. City Directories collection.

The Family History Library
Some examples of statewide directories for Pennsylvania are:

''The Pennsylvania Law Directory. Lindsay and Blakiston, 1844.''.

Ulman, H. C. Ulman's Pennsylvania Business Directory and Eastern, Western and Southern Circular, 1854/55..

Boyd, William H. Boyd's Business Directory of the Counties of Adams, Bucks, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Franklin, Lancaster, Montgomery, and York, PA, 1860..

The Family History Library has directories for:

Philadelphia

Pittsburgh

Web Sites

 * US City Directories This web site identifies printed, microfilmed, and online directories and their repositories.