Digitized Telephone Directories, 1891-1988 Data Package

• telephone.zip (904.7 MB) - Full data package which includes metadata files and 486 .txt files, zipped

• sample-data.zip (23.6 MB) - 100 randomly selected items from the 3,511 item set and their corresponding full text files (when available) have been provided as sample data. Included with this are a metadata.csv, metadata.json, and manifest.json.
• sample-data/metadata.json (604.7 KB) - A JSON file containing the metadata for the 100 sample items
• sample-data/metadata.csv (417.0 KB) - A CSV transformation of the sample JSON metadata
• sample-data/manifest.html - For downloading individual full text files, this is a simple page that lists each text's file id, item id, MD5 hash (base64), file size, and URL
• sample-data/manifest.json (3.3 KB) - A JSON file listing each text file id, their item id, MD5 hash (base64), file size, and URL

• README.html - An overview of the source data or collection provenance, the contents of the data package, and how the data package was created.
• README.md (29.3 KB) - README as a Markdown text file
• README.pdf (30.6 KB) - README as a PDF file

• metadata.json (36.1 MB) - A JSON file containing the metadata
• metadata.jsonl (22.2 MB) - A JSON lines version of the JSON data, with one record per line, useful for processing large files
• metadata.csv (25.2 MB) - A CSV transformation of the original JSON metadata
• README.html#dataset-field-descriptions - Metadata field descriptions

• data.zip (901.1 MB) - All 486 text files, zipped
• manifest.html - For downloading individual text files, this is a simple page that lists each text's file id, item id, MD5 hash (base64), file size, and URL. For bulk downloads, refer to the following Using Python section .
• manifest.txt (75.5 KB) - A text file listing each text file id, their item id, MD5 hash (base64), file size, and URL
• manifest.json (82.2 KB) - A JSON file listing each text file id, their item id, MD5 hash (base64), file size, and URL

U.S. Telephone Directory Collection

The Library of Congress makes available to the public an extensive collection of past and present city, telephone, and reverse telephone (criss-cross) directories for the United States and many foreign countries. These directories are available in a variety of formats and locations. The collection spans most of the 20th century, and includes directories from Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the city of Chicago. All the directories and their metadata records are in English. There is not a one-to-one correspondence between metadata records and directories, as some microfilm reels contained multiple directories when they were digitized. There is a mix of white pages and yellow pages. Some directories may be missing pages due to damage.

Creator:

AVP

Contributors:

LC Labs

History & Genealogy Section

Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress. Digitized Telephone Directories, 1891-1988 Data Package. [Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2023] Software, E-Resource. https://data.labs.loc.gov/telephone/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress. (2023) Digitized Telephone Directories, 1891-1988 Data Package. [Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress] [Software, E-Resource] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://data.labs.loc.gov/telephone/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress. Digitized Telephone Directories, 1891-1988 Data Package. [Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2023] Software, E-Resource. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, </data.labs.loc.gov/telephone/>.