A listing of city directories for the city of Detroit. The modern surviving company that produces these exhaustive listings of businesses, residents, and streets is the R. L. Polk Company. A variety of publishers undertook the task when the number of residents to enumerate was smaller.

  • 1929 (full text, U of Michigan)
  • 1866 (Clark's City Directory, full text, Google)
  • 1861 (Johnston's Detroit city directory, full text, Google)
  • 1855 (full text, Google)
  • 1837 (full text, Google)

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