Alameda County, California Online Historical Directories

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1860s - 1870s

University of California Directory of Graduates, UC Berkeley, 1864 - 1905 - Free (Golden Nugget Library)

- transcribed

California Voter Registers, 1866-1898 - $ (Ancestry)

Brooklyn Town and Oakland City Directories, Langley, 1873 - $ (Ancestry)

Oakland City Directory, Bishop, 1879-80 - $ (Ancestry)

- includes Alameda and Berkeley

San Francisco and Oakland Society Directories, Argonaut Publishing Company, 1879 - Free (Don's List)

1880s

California Voter Registers, 1866-1898 - $ (Ancestry)

Alameda, Berkeley, and Oakland City Directories, Bishop, 1881-2 - $ (Ancestry)

Alameda, Berkeley, and Oakland City Directories, McKenney, 1884 - $ (Ancestry)

Alameda, Berkeley, and Oakland City Directories, McKenney, 1887 - $ (Ancestry)

Alameda, Berkeley, and Oakland City Directories, McKenney, 1888 - $ (Ancestry)

Alameda, Berkeley, and Oakland City Directories, Husted, 1889-90 - $ (Ancestry)

1890s

California Voter Registers, 1866-1898 - $ (Ancestry)

Alameda, Berkeley, and Oakland City Directories, Husted, 1891 - $ (Ancestry)

Alameda, Berkeley, and Oakland City Directories, Husted, 1892 - $ (Ancestry)

- includes Alameda County

- printed 1 January 1892

Alameda, Berkeley, and Oakland City Directories, Husted, 1892-3 - $ (Ancestry)

- printed 31 December 1892

Oakland Telephone Directory, Sunset Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1893 - Free (San Francisco Genealogy)

- transcribed

Alameda, Berkeley, and Oakland City Directories, Husted, 1894 - $ (Ancestry)

- includes Alameda County

Alameda, Berkeley, and Oakland City Directories, Husted, 1895 - $ (Ancestry)

Alameda, Berkeley, and Oakland City Directories, Husted, 1897 - $ (Ancestry)

California State Government and Court Directory, unknown, 1898 - $ (Ancestry)

California Telephone Directory, Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co./Sunset Telephone & Telegraph Co., 1898 - Free (Golden Nugget Library)

- includes Alameda, Haywards (now Hayward), Livermore, Oakland, Pleasanton, San Leandro, and San Lorenzo

Alameda, Berkeley, and Oakland City Directories, Husted, 1899 - $ (Ancestry)

1900s - 1910s

California Voter Registrations, 1900-1968 - $ (Ancestry)

San Francisco Relief Business Directory, Beecher & Pike, 1906 - Free (Bancroft Library)

- gives names, businesses, and addresses of San Francisco business that were forced to relocate after the fire/earthquake of April 18 to other parts of San Francisco and to Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda and Emeryville

Alameda, Berkeley, and Oakland City Directories, Polk-Husted, 1916 - $ (Ancestry)

San Francisco Social Directory, Social Register Association, 1919 - Free (Golden Nugget Library)

- transcribed

- includes Oakland

1920s - 1930s

California Voter Registrations, 1900-1968 - $ (Ancestry)

Oakland City Directory, Polk, 1928 - Free (Internet Archive)

- includes Alameda, Berkeley, Emeryville, and Piedmont

Oakland City Directory, Polk, 1937 - Free (Internet Archive)

- includes Alameda, Berkeley, Emeryville, and Piedmont

1940s - 1950s

California Voter Registrations, 1900-1968 - $ (Ancestry)