Sands Directory

1899 edition of Sands Directory (National Library of Australia)

The Sands Directories, also published as the Sands and Kenny Directory and the Sands and McDougall Directory were annual publications in Australia.

They listed household, business, society, and Government contacts[1] in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney including some rural areas of Victoria and New South Wales from the 1850s.[2] City directories are an important resource for historical research, allowing individual addresses and occupations to be linked to specific streets and suburbs.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Eslick, Christine; Joy Hughes; R. Ian Jack (1987). Bibliography of New South Wales local history: an annotated bibliography of secondary works published before 1982 and New South Wales directories 1828 -1950. Kensington, NSW: New South Wales University Press. pp. 372, 398. ISBN 0-86840-154-4.
  3. ^ Williams, A.V. (1913). The development and growth of city directories. Cincinnati, Ohio: Williams directory co. Retrieved 5 March 2015.