Digitized Collections Digitized Collections 1790 – 2000 Frank Wilmot Government Publications Library December 13, 2006.

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Digitized Collections Digitized Collections 1790 – 2000 Frank Wilmot Government Publications Library December 13, 2006

Can sticking gravel up your nose really cause idiocy? Assigned causes of idiocy

History and Background: New nation needed a census to Apportion the House of Representatives

History and Background: New nation needed a census to Figure out how much each state owed for the war

History and Background: Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct.

Census Bureau – Progress 1790 – 1870: U.S. marshalls and assistants 1880 – 1900: Census Office within U.S. Dept. of Interior 1902: Congress authorized the President to create a permanent Census Office

Census Bureau – Progress 1903: Transferred to the new Dept. of Commerce and Labor 1913: Dept. of Commerce and Labor split into two; Census went with Commerce

First Census – 1790

Subsequent Censuses Added in 1810 Manufactures

Subsequent Censuses Added in 1840 Agriculture Mining Fisheries

Subsequent Censuses Other social issued added in 1850 Taxes Churches

Subsequent Censuses Other social issued added in 1850 Pauperism Crime

Subsequent Censuses Spread geographically

Subsequent Censuses Spread geographically

Subsequent Censuses Spread geographically

Subsequent Censuses 1880 and 1890 Took almost a decade to compile and publish reports

Subsequent Censuses 1880: 22 Volumes, Compendium, etc. 1890: 15 Volumes, some with multiple parts 1910: 10 Volumes

Subsequent Censuses Dropped topics reappear in later censuses Technology Process data faster Publish faster

Census Programs Population: 1790 to present

Census Programs Housing: 1940 to present

Census Programs Agriculture

Census Programs Manufactures & Mining

Census Programs Business

Census Programs Construction

Census Programs Governments

Census Programs

Indexes Bureau of the Census catalog of publications,

Indexes Bureau of the Census catalog of publications, Libraries…….30, 33, 40, 45, 57, 1656

Indexes NINTH DECENNIAL CENSUS: … 45 Vol. I. The statistics of the population of the United States, embracing the tables of race, nationality, sex, selected ages, and occupations. To which are added the statistics of school attendance and illiteracy, of schools, libraries, newspapers and periodicals, churches, pauperism and crime, and of areas, families, and dwellings… xlix, 804p. 46…

Digitized Collection Census Bureau Website – Publications

Indexes Bureau of the Census catalog of publications, Census Catalog and Guide ( in print; online; 1999 CD-ROM)Census Catalog and Guide Catalog of Government Publications (1976-present online)Catalog of Government Publications

Digitized Collection Government Publications Library Census Guide