1887 Baltimore Merchants' and Manufacturers' Directory ~ Z. F. "Zeddie" Williams ~ Classified Business ~ History Reference Advertising

Title: [1887] Baltimore Merchants' and Manufacturers' Directory
Author: Z. F. Williams
Publication: Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald, 1887

Description: Maroon cloth boards with decorative title stamped in gilt on front cover. Light wear to covers. Original owner's penciled name on endpapers. Minor soiling on a few pages, else interior is clean. In addition to directory listings are Includes engraved illustrations of the Carrollton Hotel, Buchanan's Wharf, the Maryland Fertilizing Company Works building on the wharf at Holliday Street, City Hall, North Point's Battle Monument, the YMCA building, and Baltimore's Washington Monument. 146 pages.

A volume of classified advertising (categorized by type: e.g. alcohol, banks, barrel dealers and coopers, bricks, brushes, chair makers, coffee, fruit, hotels, jewelers, millwrights, piano manufacturers, tinware, tobacco, wheel manufacturers, etc.).

Published by Zedekiah F. ''Zeddie'' Williams (b. 1840/41), a native of Baltimore who operated as a general merchant and broker from about 1870 to 1895. Advertisements for his various enterprises (drugs, oils, fertilizers, etc.) are scattered throughout the volume. At the time of publication, his business was located at 42 S. Charles Street.

The previous owner was a farmer named John Edward Post (1856-1925), a resident of Lewis County, West Virginia. His name is inscribed on the endpapers with the dates 1887 and 1888, and his residence is indicated as alternatively Etna(?), West Va, and the town of Jane Lew.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

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