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 directories were published by the Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation of Chicago twice annually, and those digitized cover the years of 1921-1960. These are free to search, read, and/or download.
- Calumet District Directory – August 1921
- Calumet District Directory – February 1922
- Calumet District Directory – September 1922
- Calumet District Directory – March 1923
- Calumet District Directory – May 1946
- Calumet District Directory February – 1947
- Calumet District Directory November – 1947
- Calumet District Directory – August 1948
- Calumet District Directory – May 1949
- Calumet District Directory – January 1950
- Calumet District Directory – October 1950
- Calumet District Directory – July 1951
- Calumet District Directory – May 1952
- Calumet District Directory – May 1953
- Calumet District Directory – April 1955
- Calumet District Directory – May 1956
- Calumet District Directory – May 1957
- Calumet District Directory – 1958
- Calumet District Directory – 1958 – 1959
- 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
