Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (3149 pages)
Author: Sands & McDougall
Year: (1917) 2009
ISBN: 9781742226880
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

A massive directory of over 3100 pages, this Sands and McDougall directory, which in 1917 was in its 61st year of publication, consists not only of a Melbourne Directory, but also its Suburbs and the country areas too.

The Melbourne and Suburban sections contain the "Street, Alphabetical, Professional, and Trade Directories together with Government, Ecclesiastical, Legal, Municipal, and Other Information".

The City and Suburbs section covers: Melbourne proper, Abbotsford, Albert Park, Alphington, Altona Bay, Armadale, Ascot Vale, Auburn, Balaclava, Balwyn, Beaumaris, Bentleigh (within the Shire of Moorabin), Blackburn, Black Flat (or Glen Waverley), Black Rock, Box Hill, Braybrook, Brighton, Broughton Park, Brown's Hill, Brunswick, Burnley, Burwood (within the Shire of Camberwell), Burwood East, Camberwell, Canterbury (within the Municipality of Camberwell), Carlton, Carlton North, Carnegie, Caulfield, Cheltenham, Clarinda, Clayton, Clifton Hill, Coburg, Collingwood, Croxton, Deepdene, Deer Park, Dingley, Doncaster, Doncaster East, East Melbourne, Elsternwick, Eltham, Elwood, Epping, Essendon, Fairfield, Fawkner, Fitzroy, Fitzroy North, Flemington, Footscray, Forest Hill, Garden Vale, Glenferrie, Glen Huntly, Glen Iris, Glenroy, Glen Waverley, Half Moon Bay, Hampton, Hawksburn, Hawthorn, Heatherton, Heidelberg, Ivanhoe, Jolimont, Kensington, Kew, Kooyong, Laverton, Maidstone, Malvern, Maribyrnong, Mentone, Middle Park, Mitcham, Mont Albert, Mont Park, Montague, Moonee Ponds, Moorabbin, Mordialloc, Moreland, Murrumbeena, Newlands, Newmarket, Newport, Northcote, North Melbourne, Northport, Oakleigh, Ormond, Parkville, Pascoe Vale, Port Melbourne, Prahran, Preston, Preston South, Richmond, Ringwood, Ripponlea, Royal Park, Sandringham, Seddon, South Melbourne, South Yarra, Spotswood, Springvale, St Kilda, Sunshine, Surrey Hills, Tally Ho, Templestowe, Thornbury, Toorak, Tooronga, Tottenham, Tunstall, Vermont, Westgarth, West Melbourne, Williamstown, Windsor, Yarraberg, and Yarraville.

The Country section contains "Alphabetical, Professional, Trade, Agricultural, and Pastoral Directories for the Whole State of Victoria, embracing about 2350 towns and postal centres".

Example entry:

KALIMNA POINT (LAKES ENTRANCE)
(Rail to Bairnsdale 170¾ miles thence steamer 24 miles; 1 mile from Cunninghame.
Shire of Orbost, Parish of Colquhoun, County of Tambo)
Cooper, Arthur H., clerk
Davies. Hy. M., Kalimna htl
Faux. Geo., farmer
Ferguson, Michl. F., farmer

The whole directory, including most text in the advertisements, is searchable. This makes it useful not only for finding names, but also places occupations and other information for family and local historians.

This CD contains high quality scanned images of the original book, and has been bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Any computer using Adobe (Acrobat) Reader 4 or later
Adobe Reader 6 or later is recommended for CDs with searchable text

SAMPLE FILE
Click here to download a file of sample pages from this book
Right click on the link and select "save as" - to a location on your hard drive. The sampler can be opened, navigated and searched as with the full CD file/s.
Sample files usually contain the title page, contents, some introductory pages and sample pages from the body of the book. Often the complete index from the original book is included.