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US City Directories - Directory Place question

jacquelynmildredbarney1
jacquelynmildredbarney1 ✭
June 28, 2021 in Indexing

The directory is called the Cleveland Leader City Directory so would Cleveland be the directory place? Above this is a statement that the "Cleveland Leader has the largest circulation of any paper in Northern Ohio." So would it be Cleveland, OH as the Directory Place?

US—City and Business Directories, 1749–1990 [Part C][M3WB-ZDL]

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  • scottjosephgillespie1
    scottjosephgillespie1 ✭
    June 28, 2021

    I can't access your batch. I've reviewed several hundred of these batches. If "Cleveland Leader City Directory" is above the names in the top margin, then Cleveland would be the directory place.

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  • John Empoliti
    John Empoliti ✭✭✭✭✭
    June 28, 2021

    I respectfully disagree - I think that the Directory Place should be blanked. Using Cleveland as the Directory Place is almost like using a place mentioned in an ad to deduce the Directory Place, which we’re not supposed to do. Maybe The Cleveland Leader also published a Directory for Cincinnati abd gave it the same name, which the locals in Cincinnati understood to mean Cincinnati. The “City” being referred to here might very well be Cleveland, but I think that we need to leave drawing that conclusion to the Researcher.

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  • Dellory Matthews
    Dellory Matthews ✭✭✭✭
    June 28, 2021

    https://cpl.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF/genealogy/city_directories.pdf

    That newspaper also published some directories for Cleveland suburbs. Which exact city the volume is for is on a page we indexers don't see. Here's an example: https://cplorg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16014coll29/id/6485

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