Calumet District Telephone Directories

The Merrillville Branch of the Lake County Public Library have placed online several telephone directories for the Calumet District that previously were only available on Microfilm. The communities represented are Dyer, East Chicago, Griffith, Hammond, Highland, Indiana Harbor, Munster, St. John, and West Hammond in Indiana and Burnham, Lansing, and Whiting in Illinois.. These 28 directories were published by the Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation of Chicago twice annually, and those digitized cover the years of 1909-1960.

1. Calumet District Directory – March 1909
   Gary and Tolleston
2. Calumet District Directory – July 1916
3. Calumet District Directory – November 1916
4. Calumet District Directory – August 1917
5. Calumet District Directory – November 1919
6. Calumet District Directory – August 1921
7. Calumet District Directory – February 1922
8. Calumet District Directory – September 1922
9. Calumet District Directory – March 1923
10. Calumet District Directory – November 1944
11. Calumet District Directory – August 1945
12. Calumet District Directory – May 1946
13. Calumet District Directory February – 1947
14. Calumet District Directory November – 1947
15. Calumet District Directory – August 1948
16. Calumet District Directory – May 1949
17. Calumet District Directory – January 1950
18. Calumet District Directory – October 1950
19. Calumet District Directory – July 1951
20. Calumet District Directory – May 1952
21. Calumet District Directory – May 1953
22. Calumet District Directory – February 1954
23. Calumet District Directory – April 1955
24. Calumet District Directory – May 1956
25. Calumet District Directory – May 1957
26. Calumet District Directory – 1958
27. Calumet District Directory – 1958 – 1959
28. Calumet District Directory – 1959 – 1960

Additional Telephone Directories

The Merrillville Branch of the Lake County Public Library have placed online several telephone directories for East Chicago also that can fill in a little of the gaps in the list above. The communities represented are East Chicago and Indiana Harbor in Indiana only. These directories were published by the Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation of Chicago twice annually, and those digitized cover the years of 1926-1931. These are free to search, read, and/or download.

• East Chicago Directory – March 1926
• East Chicago Directory – September 1926
• East Chicago Directory – March 1927
• East Chicago Directory – September 1927
• East Chicago Directory – March 1928
• East Chicago Directory – September 1928
• East Chicago Directory – February 1929
• East Chicago Directory – June 1929
• East Chicago Directory – August 1931