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Business Portal

Wayne County, Ohio Online Resource Center Portals Organization • Genealogy • Local History

Business Indexes

Historical Businesses & Letterheads

Welcome to the Wayne County Public Library Business Portal.

Business history

Business Letterheads

Defunct Businesses

Historical Directories

Directories play a very important part in research. They help researchers learn more about their ancestors on a yearly basis. Business histories and advertisements may be found through directories, too.

• Williams' Akron, Wooster & Cuyahoga Falls Directory, City Guide, and Business Mirror (1859)
  

• Annual Business Review of Wayne County (1887)

• Neikirk and Snyder Wooster City and Wayne County Directory (1904)

• Wooster Phone Book 1903

• Wooster Phone Book 1912

• Wooster Directory 1915

• Wooster Directory 1925

• The Akron, Portage Lakes, Barberton, Cuyahoga Falls Official Street Directory and Handy Guide (1944) published by The Burch Directory Co in Akron, Ohio
  

• Listing of Wayne County Directories

Historical Gallery

Photography from area businesses.

Historical Business Letterheads

Business letterheads help researchers trace business histories. Often times they provide addresses or locations of the business and years that the business was in existence.

• Business Letterheads