CD1 RARE, EARLY, SOUTHERN STATES MERCANTILE DIRECTORY-- THOMSON'S 1851 BUSINESS DIRECTORY FOR VA, MD, NC, DE & DC on CD rom

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THOMSON'S MERCANTILE AND PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY for the states of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and the District of Columbia

Containing the name- location- Post Office address- and style of business of all Mercantile firms- Manufacturing establishments- attorneys- physicians- bankers- hotel keepers- &c.- in the states names above. To which is appended an advertising register of many of the principal mercantile houses and establishments in Petersburg- Richmond- Fredericksburg- Baltimore- Philadelphia- Newark and New York / carefully collected and arranged for 1851-52
(Baltimore: William Thomson, 1851), 317 pages.

INCLUDES INDEXES to the directory and to the many pages of advertisements. A valuable reference for any serious researcher or local historian of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic states. THOUSANDS of names listed. Also great information for anyone interested in the history of American business and industry before the Civil War. Includes many advertisements from Petersburg, Richmond, Fredericksburg, Baltimore, Newark, New York, and Philadelphia.

This is a Golden Age "Virtual Book" CD created with special software developed by Golden Age Publishing, LLC. It navigates like a website, but downloads are instantaneous. Pages appear exactly as in the original book, only better, because:
--Pages of the directory MAY NOW BE SEARCHED FOR ANY TERM (surnames,etc)
(for the genealogist, this feature will be even more useful than the book's original index),
--Pages may be magnified,
--Pages may be saved and printed.

The CD runs on either a PC or MAC with a standard browser (on or off line) and requires no other special viewing software or plugins--merely insert the CD into the drive and it opens in the browser window (MAC users must start the CD manually by clicking on the "open.htm" file).

Minimum system requirements:
Internet Explorer or Netscape versions 4.0 or greater, 32 meg ram, 133 Pentium processor and 8x CD Rom drive (Javascript enabled).
Best viewed at screen resolution of 800 x 600.

This CD is a helpful reference, especially for the genealogist. For every County in the states of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, (also includes the District of Columbia), there is an INDEX that lists the names of merchants and professionals in over 200 occupations including the following:

DAGUERREOTYPE ARTISTS, artists material, physicians, banks, booksellers, china and glassware makers and dealers, dentists, druggists, furniture makers, gunsmiths, portrait painters, a Negro depot, steamboat offices, telegraph operators, surgical instrument maker, watches and jewelry, restaurants and inns, ship builders, &c &c.

The book also contains a second index to all advertisers (there are over 100 pages of advertisements in the back of the directory, many are illustrated), and a list of the Post Offices in 1851 by EACH County for each of the states listed.
ISBN 0-9720086-1-6

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