Great Lakes Business Directories

R. L. Polk & Co.’s Marine Directory of the Great Lakes (1884-91)

• 1884
• 1888
• Another volume has survived from 1891

Beeson’s Marine Directory (1888-1921)

• 1888
• 1889
• 1890
• 1891
• 1892
• 1893
• 1894
• 1898
• 1899
• 1900
• 1901
• 1902
• 1903
• 1904
• 1905
• 1906
• 1908
• 1909
• 1910
• 1911
• 1912
• 1913
• 1914
• 1915
• 1916
• 1917
• 1918
• 1919
• 1920
• 1921

Blue Book of American Shipping (1896-1913)

• 1896 Vol. 1
• 1897 Vol. 2
• 1899 Vol. 4
• 1900 Vol. 5
• 1901 Vol. 6
• 1902 Vol. 7
• 1903 Vol. 8
• 1904 Vol. 9
• 1905 Vol. 10
• 1906 Vol. 11
• 1907 Vol. 12
• 1909 Vol. 14
• 1910 Vol. 15
• 1911-12 Vol. 16
• 1913 Vol. 17

Green’s Directory (1909-1963, originally Mitchell’s)

• 1912
• 1915
• 1916
• 1917
• 1919
• 1920
• 1921
• 1922
• 1923
• 1927
• 1928
• 1930
• 1931
• 1934
• 1936
• 1937
• 1939
• 1940
• 1941
• 1942
• 1944
• 1945
• 1946
• 1947
• 1948
• 1949
• 1950
• 1951
• 1952
• 1953
• 1954
• 1955
• 1956
• 1957
• 1958
• 1959
• 1960
• 1961
• 1962
• 1963
• 1964
• 1965

Great Lakes Red Book (1899-1994)

• 1923
• 1924
• 1926
• 1928
• 1930
• 1933
• 1934
• 1935
• 1936
• 1937
• 1938
• 1939
• 1940
• 1941

Several other titles appeared over the course of the twentieth century including the International Ship Masters’ Association of the Great Lakes Directory (1898-c1967), Greenwood and Dill’s (1973-1995), the obscure Travers’s Marine Directory (Duluth, the 12th ed. was 1910) and on the popular front, Know Your Ships (1959-), which is still very active.