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Decennial Population and Housing Censuses Guide
1850 Census Reports
- Questionnaire, instructions, and table headers
- * Questionnaire and Instructions to Marshals and
Assistants - from Measuring America (Sept. 2002)
- * Table Finding Guide - from Seventh Census
of the United States, 1850 (I8.5:1)
- * Table headers - from Seventh Census of
the United States, 1850 (I8.5:1)
- Seventh Census of the United States: 1850
- Census
Bureau PDF file
- U.S. Documents C3.14:850 (reclassed from
I8.5:1)
- * GEOGRAPHIES: Nation, states, Territories, Counties; Nation-wide
tables of all Counties, Districts, and Parishes; and of all Places
- * CONTENTS: The topics covered by the 1850 census increased
significantly over those in previous censuses.
- * A table finding guide (Index to all of the subjects treated of in the
state tables (p. vii) is included for the first time.
- * Data, usually at the county level, is presented in fourteen topical
tables for each state.
- - I. Population by counties--Classification of ages and
color--Aggregates
- - II. Population by subdivisions of counties
- - III. Nativities of the population
- - IV. Births, marriages, deaths, dwellings, and
families
- - V. Progress of population from 1790 to 1850
- - VI. Deaf and dumb, blind, insane, and idiotic
- - VII. Colleges, academies, schools, &c
- - VIII. Attending school during the year as returned by
families
- - IX. Adults in the State who cannot read and write
- - X. Professions, occupations, and trades of the male
population
- - XI. Agriculture, farms and implements, stock, products,
home manufactures, &c
- - XII. Newspapers and periodicals
- - XIII. Libraries other than private
- - XIV. Churches, church property, &c
- * See the LINK HEREtable headers to identify statistics that include
age ranges of persons.
- * The 1850 census is an important one. This volume abstracts
previous census legislation from 1790 to 1850, introduces new questions for
social statistics, for occupations, and includes data on immigration, the
weather, and Indian population by tribe for 1789, 1825, and 1853.
- [Compendium] Statistical View of the United States, based upon the
several official returns, from the earliest period, and embracing a compendium
of the census of 1850
- Census
Bureau PDF file
- U.S. Documents C3.14:850/rep 1990 v. 4 (reclassed from
I8.2:C73/1)
- * GEOGRAPHIES: States, Territories, Counties; Nation-wide table of
Cities, Towns, Townships, Hundreds, &c
- * California state census of 1852 is included.
- * QUESTIONS: Subject matter is first organized in five categories
with national and state data:
- - I. Territory
- - II. Population
- - figures for White, Free Colored, Slave,
Aggregate
- - records Families and dwellings; Sex; Age;
Births, Marriages and Deaths; Deaf and Dumb, Blind, Insane, &c.; Occupations;
Nativities
- - III. Moral and Social Condition
- - IV. Industry
- - Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce,
Internal Improvements
- - V. Property, Revenue, Taxation, etc.
- * VI. contains Statistical Detail of Cities, Towns, and Counties
- [Abstract] Seventh Census. Report of the Superintendent of the
Census
- Census
Bureau PDF files
- U.S. Documents C3.14:850/abstract (reclassed from
I8.1:1852)
- * Narrative text supplemented with tables.
- * Topics: Population, House accommodations, Mortality, Origin (nativity),
Deaf mutes, Blind, Insane, Education, Pauperism, Crime, Religion, Real and
personal estate, Agriculture, Railroads, Telegraphs, Cost of work
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