Pennsylvania Directories

Online Resources

 * Fold3 City Directories Pennsylvania
 * Pennsylvania Online Historical Directories - listed by county
 * Pennsylvania City Directories, by county and city

History
Directories of heads of households have been published for major cities in Pennsylvania.

Directories Online

 * Fold3.com ($) has Philadelphia City Directories 1785, 1791, 1793-1922 (7 yrs. missing) and Pittsburgh City Directories 1861-1923 (3 yrs. missing) available online.
 * Ancestry.com ($) has Pennsylvania directories available online in its U.S. City Directories collection.

The FamilySearch Library
The FamilySearch Library has city directories for various years from throughout the state of Pennsylvania including:

Philadelphia

1797-1849 FS Library film 983347-983355 1850-1899 FS Library film 1000893-1000903 1861-1901 FS Library film 1377251-1377290

Pittsburgh

1861-1901 FS Library film 1377291-1377314 1940, 1969, 1970, 1971 etc. FS Library book 974.885 E4ph

Some examples of statewide directories for Pennsylvania are:

''The Pennsylvania Law Directory. Lindsay and Blakiston, 1844.''.

Ulman, H. C. Ulman's Pennsylvania Business Directory and Eastern, Western and Southern Circular, 1854/55..

Boyd, William H. Boyd's Business Directory of the Counties of Adams, Bucks, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Franklin, Lancaster, Montgomery, and York, PA, 1860..

To find directories, consult the Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under:


 * PENNSYLVANIA, [COUNTY] — DIRECTORIES
 * PENNSYLVANIA, [COUNTY], [TOWN] — DIRECTORIES

Websites

 * US City Directories This web site identifies printed, microfilmed, and online directories and their repositories.