US City Directories - Directory Place question

jacquelynmildredbarney1

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]

scottjosephgillespie1

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.

John Empoliti

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.

Dellory Matthews

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