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Hierarchy
- Secondary term
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directory, post office
- URI
- https://nomenclature.info/nom/15059 (opens semantic view)
- Definition
- A directory containing an alphabetical list of post offices by regions with its corresponding post-master names, rates of domestic and foreign postage, etc. Used by post-masters to manage the mail.
- Definition source(s)
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- American Association for State and Local History (AASLH), and Canadian Heritage Information Network / Réseau canadien d’information sur le patrimoine. 2018. “Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging / Nomenclature pour le catalogage des objets de musée.” September 1, 2018. https://www.nomenclature.info/.
- English
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- Term (International)
- post office directory
- Inverted term (International)
- directory, post office
- French
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- Term (International)
- annuaire des postes
- Term gender (International)
- masculine
- Note(s)
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- Do not confuse with the directory published by post offices containing information on residents, businesses, tradesmen of a specific area or city.
- Date created
- 2021-04-16
- Date updated
- 2021-04-19
- Bibliographic citation(s)
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- Library of Congress. n.d. “Post-office directory for 1866 : alphabetical list of post-offices in the United States, with the names of post-masters ... as published by the Post-office department : also, names of new post-offices, etc., arranged alphabetically : with an appendix, containing the rates of domestic and foreign postage, list of money order post-offices, ...” Library of Congress Library. Accessed April 19, 2021. https://lccn.loc.gov/01001672.
- Office québécois de la langue française. n.d. “maître de poste.” Grand dictionnaire terminologique. Accessed April 19, 2021. http://gdt.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/ficheOqlf.aspx?Id_Fiche=17065497.
- The J. Paul Getty Trust. n.d. “post office directories.” Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online. Accessed April 19, 2021. http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300080192.
- Translation Bureau / Bureau de la traduction. n.d. “post office directory / annuaire des postes.” Termium Plus. Accessed March 17, 2020. https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-fra.html?lang=fra&i=1&srchtxt=POST+OFFICE+DIRECTORY&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs.
- United States Postal Service. n.d. “Lists, Tables, and Directories of Post Offices, 1803–.” United States Postal Service. Accessed April 19, 2021. https://about.usps.com/publications/pub119/pub119_v03_016.htm.
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