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Online City Directories

  • In case it isn't obvious, the little elves at BuffaloResearch.com do not own any Buffalo city directories.  Instead, we watch for when other people digitize them.   Then we collect the links here for your convenience.
  • We include social and business directories, when we find them online in full text
  •  If you discover online Buffalo city directories not listed here, please let us know.
  • Our other page on city directories shows you what directories are still offline, when directories were first published for the towns and villages of Erie County, and who owns them in hard copy.  

Buffalo directories
Year & Link
Notes
1828
A text file with names and addresses.  This is Buffalo's first city directory.  The next one came out in 1832.
1832
Page scans from the original directory at DistantCousin.com
1832
Page scans from the original directory at Google Books
1832
Page scans from the original directory at Archive.org
1842
Page scans from the original directory at Hathi Trust.  Title page appears after several advertisements.
1844
Page scans from the original directory at Google Books
1848
Page scans from the original directory at Google Books.  Title page appears after several advertisements.
1849-50
Page scans from the original directory at Hathi Project
1850-51
Page scans from the original directory at Hathi Trust
1851-52
Page scans from the original directory at Google Books
1852
Page scans from the original directory at Hathi Trust
1853
Page scans from the original directory at Google Books
1853
Page scans from the original directory at Hathi Trust
1854
Page scans from the original directory at Google Books
1854
Page scans from the original directory at Hathi Trust
1855
Page scans from the original directory at Google Books
1855
Business directory only.  Page scans from the original directory at Google Books
1858 Page scans from the original directory at Google Books
1859
Page scans from the original directory at Google Books
1860
Page scans from the original directory at Google Books
1861
Page scans from the original directory at Google Books
1862
Page scans from the original directory at Google Books
1863
Page scans from the original directory at Google Books
1864
Page scans from the original directory at Google Books
1865
Page scans from the original directory at Google Books
1869
Page scans from the original directory at DistantCousin.com
1870 Page scans from the original directory at Hathi Trust
1873 Page scans from the original directory at Hathi Trust
1883
Page scans from the Buffalo Address Book & Family Directory at WNYlegacy.org, limited to middle & upper class families
1884 Page scans from the original directory at Google Books
1884
Page scans from the Buffalo Address Book & Family Directory at WNYlegacy.org, limited to middle & upper class families
1887
Page scans from the Buffalo Address Book & Family Directory at WNYlegacy.org, limited to middle & upper class families
1888
Page scans from the Buffalo Address Book & Family Directory at WNYlegacy.org, limited to middle & upper class families
1890
Incomplete.  East Side names have been culled by volunteers and listed here
1890 Searchable at Ancestry.com.  You get last name and first name but not address or occupation unless you have a membership.
1890
Page scans from the Buffalo Address Book & Family Directory at WNYlegacy.org, limited to middle & upper class families
1892
Page scans from the Buffalo Address Book & Family Directory at WNYlegacy.org, limited to middle & upper class families
1894
Page scans from the Buffalo Address Book & Family Directory at WNYlegacy.org, limited to middle & upper class families
1915 Pages scans from the 1915 Bell Telephone Directory for Buffalo
1918 Social Register, Summer edition.  See pp. 590-600 for names & summer homes of  of wealthy Buffalonians
1919 Social Register, Summer edition.  See pp. 618-626 for names & summer homes of  of wealthy Buffalonians
1920 Blue Book of Buffalo Commerce, the directory of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce
Erie County directories
Year & Link Notes
1871 Classified business directory from Asher & Adams atlas at NYPL.org
1917
Names are gradually being transcribed online by a volunteer
1924
Online in "limited preview" at Google Books, meaning that not all pages are visible
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Last updated 22 January 2010