ABSTRACT
Ideas of directory publishing came relatively late to Finland compared with developments in neighbouring Sweden. Directory publication not only started late in Finland, but was also characterised by somewhat slow and very often erratic evolutionary trends. Even in the largest urban centres such as Helsinki, regular directory publishing proved extremely difficult to sustain until after 1870, when such publications became more or less annual. The directory also contains an alphabetically listed names section of householders under the title‘Sendare Afdelningen: adresskalender’. The 1883 edition was much longer and more comprehensive than Edlund’s directory, having a detailed map of Helsinki as an appendix. A distinctive feature of directory development in Finland was the publication of bilingual directories in the years immediately before independence in 1917. The administrative part of the directory contains information in Swedish on the left side of the page and Finnish on the right.
