The western address directory : containing the cards of merchants, manufacturers, and other business men, in Pittsburgh, (Pa.) Wheeling, (Va.) Zanesville, (O.) Portsmouth, (O.) Dayton, (O.) Cincinnati, (O.) Madison, (Ind.) Louisville, (K.) St. Louis, (Mo.) ; together with historical, topographical & statistical sketches, (for the year 1837,) of those cities and towns in the Mississippi valley ; intended as a guide to travellers ; to which is added, alphabetically arranged, a list of the steam-boats on the western waters
A commercial directory compiled by William Gilman Lyford and printed in Baltimore in 1837, listing merchants and manufacturers in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis and other Ohio and Mississippi river towns for travellers and traders. The wood-engraved trade cards supply factory views, spread-eagle emblems with banner mottoes, mail coaches, watermills and steamboats, useful as ready-made vignettes and lettered business insignia.
