page_title: Sands Directory
section_title: Publisher
hierarchical_section_title: Sands Directory / Publisher
caption_attribution_description: English: 1899 edition of Sands Directory (cover)
context_page_description: The Sands Directories, also published as the Sands and Kenny Directory and the Sands and McDougall Directory were annual publications in Australia.
  They listed household, business, society, and Government contacts in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney including some rural areas of Victoria and New South Wales from the 1850s. City directories are an important resource for historical research, allowing individual addresses and occupations to be linked to specific streets and suburbs.
context_section_description: John Sands (1818-1873) was an engraver, printer and stationer.  Born in England he moved to Sydney in 1837.  Sands formed several business partnerships, in 1851 with his brother-in-law Thomas Kenny, and in 1860 with Dugald McDougall with the business being known as Sands, Kenny & Co. Directory titles changed as the publisher changed partners, and at different points the Sands Directories were also published as the 'Sands and Kenny' or 'Sands and McDougall Directories'.
caption: 1899 edition of Sands Directory (cover)
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