The full title is 'Ballarat and Ballarat District Directory including Buninyong, Browns, Clunes, Creswick, Smythesdale and Scarsdale for 1865-66'. Compiled by F.M. Dicker, this 250 page volume is arranged as follows:
- Street Directory - 65 pages
- Alphabetical Directory - 61 pages
- Government Departments
- Parliament of Victoria
- Post Office
- Telegraph Office
- Gold
- Legal
- Ecclesiastical
- Municipal
- Public Institutions
- Societies
- Trade Directory
- Mining
- Companies
- Advertisements
The directory concludes with over 50 pages of advertisements - all useful information, often including names of people and places.
The whole directory, including most text in the ads, is searchable, useful not only for finding names, but also places occupations and other information for family and local historians.
Originally produced by Archive CD Books Australia in 2004, this title has now been remastered and re-released, and includes better searching capability. This CD contains high quality scanned images of the whole of the original book, and has been bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.
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Right click on the link and select "save as" - to a location on your hard drive. The sampler can be opened, navigated and searched as with the full CD file/s.
Sample files usually contain the title page, contents, some introductory pages and sample pages from the body of the book. Often the complete index from the original book is included.
