Sands Directory

They listed household, business, society, and Government contacts[1] in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney including some rural areas of Victoria and New South Wales from the 1850s.

[2] City directories are an important resource for historical research, allowing individual addresses and occupations to be linked to specific streets and suburbs.

[5] By 1858 the second edition of the directory was distributed to public libraries in the major seaports of Great Britain, Ireland, the United States of America, and Canada.

[9] With the primary function of post office directory it provides lists of householders, businesses, public institutions and officials.

[21] The facade of the Sands & McDougall Printers and Stationers building at 64 King William Street, Adelaide is an excellent early example of Art Deco architecture in South Australia.