Western Australia Post Office Directory
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Western Australia Post Office Directory
Annual directories of people and businesses, in the state of Western Australia.
[edit] Duration
The Western Australian Directory published by H. Pierssene between 1893-1895.
The Western Australia Post Office Directory was published by Wise & Co. between the years 1895-1949 with the exception of 1943 and 1948.
[edit] Wise Directories
Known colloquially to users and book collectors as 'Wise Directories' or 'Wise Street Directories' the red covered directories were published between 1893 and 1949. Due to the annual changes, the directories are valuable historical documents for Western Australian History. They are scarce in the Australian rare book market.
The directories have been invaluable referent points for such projects as the Dictionary of Western Australians and others where the street lists in the directory provide details of inhabitants and houses in some streets in the more built-up resdiential areas. Country towns in the directory have name lists only.
They have been available in microfilm form in Battye Library, and more recently have become online (see link below) in one of the Battye Library digitization projects.
