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Uncovering a Fascinating 1799 City Directory from Baltimore

Baltimore city directory - 1799
Discover a fascinating look at history with this 1799 city directory from Baltimore. It was printed by Warner & Hanna on North Gay Street. Click here to view the PDF!
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How cool is this? If you’re older than probably 30, you remember actually using a paper phonebook. Well, here’s a fascinating city directory that we dug up from 1799. It was printed by Warner & Hanna on North Gay Street.

Baltimore city directory - 1799
Baltimore city directory – 1799
Baltimore city directory - 1799
Baltimore city directory – 1799
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Baltimore city directory - 1799
Baltimore city directory – 1799
Baltimore city directory - 1799
Baltimore city directory – 1799

 

Click here to view a PDF of the whole directory.

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Source: Archive.org

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