1922 COLUMBIA SC City Directory WHITES & BLACKS "COLOREDS" in SEPARATE SECTIONS

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WALSH'S COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, 1922 CITY DIRECTORY.
This Directory puts its Residents in Two Separate Sections, White Residents at the front and Black Residents at the rear in a section titled "COLORED DEPARTMENT". Makes this Columbia, South Carolina, Directory a True Document of the JIM CROW SOUTH that tried to keep the races separate.
The General Index states: "Gen'l Directory of WHITE NAMES 101-426" and "Gen'l Directory of COL. (COLORED)  Names 429-540".
Published by House Of Directories, and Printed by the Miller Press, Asheville, North Carolina, 1922. This is the Original, Vintage Directory published in 1922.
Original hardcovers, printed cloth covered boards and spine, 6x9.5 inches, thick volume, 610 pages.
Contains numerous advertisements of the day. These directories were published as advertising vehicles so ads are everywhere, including the covers and stamped on the page edges.
This volume was part of the amazing SUTRO GENEALOGICAL LIBRARY of SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. There is a Sutro Library bookplate on the front pastedown, and Sutro Library ink stamps and associated library marks and stamps here and there throughout. The Sutro Library was (and to a large part still is) a treasure trove of genealogical books collected by Adolph Sutro and donated to the City of San Francisco. The collection was pretty much neglected by the City until, in 2012 the City gave the collection to the library of San Francisco State University. Before and after the move to SFSU, quite a few volumes from the Sutro genealogical library were, sadly, deaccessioned, so that the collection would fit it into its new space. In its new home the Sutro Library is still considered to have the best genealogical collection west of Salt Lake City, and is now much better cared for, it's just not as large as it was. Once these wonderful deaccessioned Sutro genealogy books find new homes they will likely not be seen again for some time.
FAIR CONDITION: The spine is rubbed at its ends and folds, has the ghost of a shelving label, and its gilt lettering has rubbed and faded away; the front and rear covers are bumped and worn through at the corners, are soiled, and the front cover has some waviness at the top area; nonetheless these original covers are solid and doing their job. Internally, the front and rear inner hinges are cracked but holding, the signatures composed of pages 315 to 318 and 411 to 414 were disbound but have been reinserted and bound in with clear tape at the gutter edges leaving their front edge overhanging the other pages, that overhang is worn; there are some spots, smudges, and creases here and there, there are some small previous owner's marks here and there (i.e. small x's beside some names), there are Sutro Library labels and marks as noted above; otherwise a complete, solid, copy of this ORIGINAL 1922 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA DIRECTORY.
About the SUTRO LIBRARY (from where this book was deaccessioned):
******The Sutro Library holds the original collection of Adolph Sutro (1830–1898), California businessman and San Francisco mayor. The library has a large collection of publications and items dating from the 13th to the 21st centuries. It also has one of the largest genealogy collections in the U.S.
Adolph Sutro's heirs donated his collection to the California State Library in 1913 with the requirement that the collection stay within the city of San Francisco. After operating in various locations in the city for almost 100 years, the Sutro Library moved to a permanent home at San Francisco State University in 2012.******
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