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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Dual City Blue Book 1885

The Dual City Blue Book 1885

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Quotations20th Century United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354505465
ISBN13: 9789354505461
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 446
Weight: 1.43
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Step into a city where reputation had an address and ambition wore a calling card. Names. Streets. Status. Enterprise. Secrets. The Dual City Blue Book 1885 is a blue book directory from the heart of Gilded Age America, capturing the rhythm of 1880s American cities through the people who shaped them. Compiled as a Victorian social register and historical city directory, this volume gathers prominent residents listings alongside practical detail: addresses and occupations, a business and professional index, and the connective tissue of everyday civic life. Read it straight through and you will hear a bustling metropolis at work; dip in at random and you will find a portrait of neighbourhoods, trades, institutions, and social networks. For family historians it is a genealogy research resource with the kind of precision that turns a half-remembered ancestor into a traceable life. For historians and curious browsers it stands as a local history reference, rich in patterns of migration, commerce, and class. As part of a wider city directory collection tradition, the Blue Book is historically significant not for opinion, but for evidence: the documentary backbone of how communities recorded themselves at the height of modern urban growth. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Whether you collect facsimile reprint edition landmarks or simply love the texture of the past, this is a vivid, usable artefact of its time.

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