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

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 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

8. First Census – 1790

10. Subsequent Censuses Added in 1810 Manufactures

11. Subsequent Censuses Added in 1840 Agriculture Mining Fisheries

12. Subsequent Censuses Other social issued added in 1850 Taxes Churches

13. Subsequent Censuses Other social issued added in 1850 Pauperism Crime

14. Subsequent Censuses Spread geographically

15. Subsequent Censuses Spread geographically

16. Subsequent Censuses Spread geographically 1903 1907

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

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

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

21. Census Programs Population: 1790 to present

22. Census Programs Housing: 1940 to present

23. Census Programs Agriculture

24. Census Programs Manufactures & Mining

25. Census Programs Business

26. Census Programs Construction

27. Census Programs Governments

28. Census Programs

62. Indexes Bureau of the Census catalog of publications, 1790-1972

63. Indexes Bureau of the Census catalog of publications, 1790-1972 Libraries…….30, 33, 40, 45, 57, 1656

64. Indexes NINTH DECENNIAL CENSUS: 1870 44… 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…

65. Digitized Collection Census Bureau Website – Publications http://www.census.gov/prod/www/titles.html

66. Indexes Bureau of the Census catalog of publications, 1790-1972 Census Catalog and Guide (1946-1998 in print; 1995-1998 online; 1999 CD-ROM)Census Catalog and Guide Catalog of Government Publications (1976-present online)Catalog of Government Publications

67. Digitized Collection Government Publications Library Census Guide