Volume 24 contains several indexes, listing names by place of birth, occupation, or name of contributor. These two sources provide short biographical descriptions of modern authors. Shelved at the end of both series is a paperback Cumulative Index. Current Biography Contains biographical information on prominent contemporary people. Each description is followed by bibliographic citations referring the user to other sources of information.
Photographs sometimes accompany entries.
There is an index in the back of each volume and a 1940-1995 annual cumulative index. Dictionary of American Biography Alphabetical listing of historically prominent Americans from Colonial times to 1970. Does not include living people. Cumulative name index is located in Supplement Eight. Cumulative occupation index is in the last volume.