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The Sydney editions of the directory, covering the state of New South Wales, were published each year from 1858–59 to 1932–33. There were four years when the directory did not appear during this time, they were 1872, 1874, 1878 and 1881. The directory is arranged by municipalities in which
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The first Melbourne Directory was published by Sands and Kenny in 1857. By 1858 the second edition of the directory was distributed to public libraries in the major seaports of Great Britain, Ireland, the United States of America, and Canada. From 1862 to 1974 the Melbourne directories were
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Sands Sydney, Suburban and Country Directory for 1913 comprising, amongst other information, street, alphabetical, trade and professional, country towns, country alphabetical, pastoral, educational, governmental, parliamentary, law and miscellaneous
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properties were located, listing the primary householder street by street. As a consequence, the household and business information in the directories is used for research into Sydney history, with particular application for genealogical research.
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in 1883. They took over the directory previously published by Josiah Boothby, publishing their first South Australian directory in January 1884. The Sands & McDougall's Directory of South Australia was published from 1884 to 1974.
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Directory titles changed as the publisher changed partners, and at different points the Sands Directories were also published as the 'Sands and Kenny' or 'Sands and McDougall Directories'.
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in South Australia. The facade of the 19th-century neoclassical building was redesigned in 1933, and was listed on the South Australian Heritage Register in December 2020.
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Bibliography of New South Wales local history: an annotated bibliography of secondary works published before 1982 and New South Wales directories 1828 -1950
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are an important resource for historical research, allowing individual addresses and occupations to be linked to specific streets and suburbs.
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Sands & McDougall's South Australian directory : with which is incorporated Boothby's South Australian directory
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By 1909 the Sydney directory contained over 1700 pages. The full title of the 1913 edition of the directory of Sydney is
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in 1837. Sands formed several business partnerships, in 1851 with his brother-in-law Thomas Kenny, and in 1860 with
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The 1860 Melbourne directory was 400 pages long and contained over 10,000 entries.
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The facade of the Sands & McDougall Printers and Stationers building at 64
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including some rural areas of Victoria and New South Wales from the 1850s.
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They listed household, business, society, and Government contacts in
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Sands, Kenny & Co's commercial and general Melbourne directory
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published as the Sands and McDougall Melbourne Directory.
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Sands Sydney, Suburban and Country Commercial Directory
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Melbourne. 24 January 1860. p. 5 226:"Sands and Kenny's Melbourne Directory" 214: 199:Western Australia Post Office Directory 130:1899 edition of Sands Directory (spine) 87:1899 edition of Sands Directory (cover) 56:were annual publications in Australia. 759:Sands & McDougall Limited (1884). 707:Sands & McDougall Limited (1884), 629:Royal Australian Historical Society. 415: 413: 204:New South Wales Post Office Directory 7: 740:. Adelaide. 27 March 1896. p. 4 454:. Sydney. 15 January 1923. p. 9 220: 218: 631:"Sands Directories are now online!" 391:Stephens, Andrew (15 August 2014). 25: 660:. 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Index

Sands and McDougall

National Library of Australia
Melbourne
Adelaide
Sydney
City directories

John Sands
Sydney
Dugald McDougall
Sands, Kenny & Co.


Art Deco
King William Street, Adelaide
Adelaide
King William Street, Adelaide
Art Deco architecture
Western Australia Post Office Directory
New South Wales Post Office Directory


"Sands and Kenny's Melbourne Directory"
The Age
Bibliography of New South Wales local history: an annotated bibliography of secondary works published before 1982 and New South Wales directories 1828 -1950
ISBN
0-86840-154-4
The development and growth of city directories

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