United States Census Office

Overview

Works:	2,857 works in 3,810 publications in 1 language and 26,406 library holdings
Genres:	Census History Genealogy Statistics‡vVital Sources Registers Bibliography Maps Catalogs
Roles:	Composer, Editor
Classifications:	F379.N557, 317.3

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Publications about United States

Publications by United States

Most widely held works about United States

Heads of families at the First Census of the United States taken in the year 1790 by United States ( Book )
Heads of families at the first census of the United States in the year 1790, Virginia by United States ( Book )
1970 Census of population : general social and economic characteristics, Louisiana ( Book )
Marion County, Kentucky 1850 census by Mary Jo Maguire ( Book )
Wright County, Missouri 1880 federal census by Cledia Sheils ( Book )

1790-1880 (United States) census, White Plains, Westchester County, New York by Katherine Ross McLaughlin ( Book )
Act of Mar. 6, 1902, providing for establishment of permanent Census Office, with amendatory acts, and provisions of other acts relating to Census Office ( Book )
Report of the Director of the Census to the Secretary of the Interior by United States ( )
Heads of families : first census of the United States: 1790. Records of the State enumerations of Virginia from 1782 to 1785 [Albemarle County 1785] Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1908 by United States ( Book )
Report of the Superintendent of the Census made to the Secretary of the Interior by United States ( )
Population schedules, 1800-1870 : volume index to counties and major cities by United States ( Book )
The plans for the twelfth census ... Together with a brief statement of the plans for the agricultural census by Walter Francis Willcox ( Book )
Act of Congress of twenty-third May, 1850 Instructions to U.S. marshals, instructions to assistants by United States ( Book )
Special bulletins of Census Office ( Book )
Bulletins ( Book )
1970 Census of population : Louisiana by United States ( Book )
Heads of families : first census of the United States: 1790. State enumerations of VMassachusetts from 1782 to 1785 by United States ( Book )
Report of the Director of the twelfth census to the Secretary of the Interior, 1899 by United States ( Book )
Bulletins ( Book )
Special bulletins of Census Office ( Book )

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Most widely held works by United States

The New Orleans of George Washington Cable the 1887 Census Office report by George Washington Cable ( )
4 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 1,378 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A pioneering local-color writer about Creole New Orleans and a public advocate for black equality in his native South during and after Reconstruction, George Washington Cable (1844-1925) depicted in his writing the clash between American newcomers and a quaint but proud French-speaking population in post-Louisiana Purchase New Orleans. His work, including the short-story collection Old Creole Days (1879) and his most famous novel, The Grandissimes (1880), received widespread critical acclaim and was serialized in the country's best highbrow magazines. In 1880, Cable was commissioned to write a

Return of the whole number of persons within the several districts of the United States, according to "An act providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States" : passed March the first, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one [i.e. 1790] by United States ( Book )
30 editions published between 1791 and 2005 in English and held by 430 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Statistical view of the United States : embracing its territory, population--white, free colored, and slave--, moral and social condition, industry, property, and revenue : the detailed statistics of cities, towns, and counties : being a compendium of the seventh census, to which are added the results of every previous census, beginning with 1790, in comparative tables, with explanatory and illustrative notes, based upon the schedules and other official sources of information by United States ( Book )
2 editions published in 1854 in English and held by 349 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Statistical atlas of the United States : based upon the results of the eleventh census by United States ( )
9 editions published between 1898 and 2003 in English and held by 308 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Agriculture of the United States in 1860 by United States ( Book )
10 editions published between 1864 and 1990 in English and held by 305 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mortality statistics of the seventh census of the United States, 1850 by United States ( Book )
3 editions published between 1855 and 1990 in English and held by 293 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Manufactures of the United States in 1860 by United States ( Book )
4 editions published between 1865 and 1990 in English and held by 290 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

12th census of population, 1900 [schedules] : Texas by United States ( Book )
51 editions published between 1900 and 1996 in English and held by 278 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Moqui Pueblo Indians of Arizona and Pueblo Indians of New Mexico by United States ( Book )
4 editions published in 1893 in English and held by 250 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Census reports ... Twelfth census of the United States, taken in the year 1900 by United States ( Book )
4 editions published between 1902 and 1975 in English and held by 242 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Statistics of the United States : (including mortality, property, &c.) in 1860 : compiled from the original returns and being the final exhibit of the eighth census, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior by United States ( Book )
4 editions published between 1866 and 1990 in English and held by 238 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A census of pensioners for revolutionary or military services : with their names, ages, and places of residence, as returned by the marshals of the several judicial districts, under the act for taking the sixth census by United States ( Book )
5 editions published between 1954 and 1990 in English and held by 230 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Statistical atlas of the United States based on the results of the ninth census 1870 : with contributions from many eminent men of science and several departments of the government by United States ( )
4 editions published in 1874 in English and held by 225 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Return of the whole number of persons within the several districts of the United States, according to "An act providing for the second census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States," passed February the twenty eighth, one thousand eight hundred by United States ( Book )
7 editions published between 1801 and 1990 in English and held by 216 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Occupations at the twelfth census by United States ( Book )
2 editions published in 1904 in English and held by 203 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Statistical view of the United States : embracing its territory, population--white, free colored, and slave--, moral and social condition, industry, property, and revenue : the detailed statistics of cities, towns, and counties : being a compendium of the seventh census, to which are added the results of every previous census, beginning with 1790, in comparative tables, with explanatory and illustrative notes, based upon the schedules and other official sources of information by United States ( Book )
7 editions published between 1854 and 1990 in English and held by 196 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790 by United States ( Book )
7 editions published between 1908 and 1998 in English and held by 194 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Roster of heads of families in 1790, so far as can be shown from records of the Census Office. The returns for Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Tennessee and Virginia were destroyed by fire in 1814. --Cf. introd

Compendium of the eleventh census, 1890 by United States ( Book )
2 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 194 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790 by United States ( Book )
12 editions published between 1907 and 1998 in English and held by 192 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Roster of heads of families in 1790, so far as can be shown from records of the Census Office. --Cf. introd

A general index to a census of pensioners for revolutionary or military service, 1840 by United States ( Book )
2 editions published in 1965 in English and held by 180 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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Useful Links

The New Orleans of George Washington Cable the 1887 Census Office report

Alternative Names

controlled identity United States. Bureau of the Census

United States. Dept. of the Interior. Census Office

Languages

English (202)

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Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790