City directories provided important information for the original users and they remain an excellent resource for urban historians. Because cities published them annually, directories are a window onto the residential and business activity of their community at a particular moment. For example, this 1906 directory for Greenfield, Montague, and Deerfield, Massachusetts, reveals growing ethnic diversity by recording the presence of Eastern European immigrants in the area. It also provides information about consumer culture through the advertisements that fill its pages. And, it heralds the growing use of a revolutionary form of communication: the telephone.
Greenfield (Massachusetts) Directory including Montague and Deerfield. H. A. Manning, 1906. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l99-140/. Accessed on October 16, 2024.
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