Population Information in Nineteenth Century Census Volumes - Hardcover

Population Information in Nineteenth Century Census Volumes

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Linda Archer (designer of end pages) (illustrator). Presumed First Edition, First printing. Format is approximately 8.625 inches by 11.25 inches. ix, [1], 446 pages. Map. How to Use this Book. No dust jacket present. Pencil notation--Sue Schulze personal copy original printing. Illustration inside covers and end papers. Front end pages--Guide to Volumes ---by Dubester Number. How to use this book. Includes Summary of Subjects of Census Inquiries, 1790-1890; Terminology used in this volume; States and Territories as they appears in census volumes 1790-1890; Congressional Serial Set Volumes which Include Census Data; Explanation of Roman Numerals; National Archives and Records Service; State Censuses; State Censuses and Original Schedules Listed in Dubester :State Censuses:' Bibliography; and Union List of Library Holdings. From an obituary found on-line: Sue Schulze was born in Detroit, Michigan, on January 14, 1922. She attended the University of Michigan and earned master's degrees in political science and library science. She became a professional archivist and government documents librarian, retiring from a tenured professorship at the University of Northern Colorado in 1989. She published the definitive works on the vast information available in 19th and 20th Century US censuses. She also became a leading expert on Horace Greeley. She helped edit massive University of Michigan yearbooks, served on the Rhode Island board of the American Civil Liberties Union, was president of the Joint Legislative Council of Rhode Island, and was appointed by the Governor to the Rhode Island House of Representatives reapportionment commission. The intent of this volume is to call attention to and provide better access to the enormous amount of valuable research material in the U.S. Census. Since there had up to the time of this publication been no overall index except for the Dubester Catalogue to the contents of published decennial reports,these reports have gone largely unused even by many who believed there might be some useful for their needs. The process for developing this guide involved going through each census volume page by page and to match the subjects covered in each table with those already established in the two earlier guides. The subjects have remained very much the same, and those listed on the end pages of this book are very nearly identical to those of the other two volumes. Census data collection and processing procedures are complex; census data products are voluminous, varying in format and content; glossaries associated with census programs and tabulations are unique. Reference publications using census data are published by individuals or organizations offering academic, business, and practical approaches. Although there are many types of reference publications, they tend to generally fall into the following categories: catalogs, guides, and indexes. Henry J. Dubester lived to the age of 99. Born in Berlin, Germany on November 8, 1917, he came to the U.S. in 1926. He received his Bachelors of Science from City College of New York and a Masters in Psychology from Columbia University. He served in the U.S. Army from 1942 - 1945. For much of his professional career, Henry worked at the Library of Congress, where, among other accomplishments, he prepared the standard bibliography of historical U.S. census publications (Catalog of United States Census Publications, 1790-1945) that still bears his name. He served as Deputy Chief of the Office of Science Information Services at the National Science Foundation. Upon retirement from government service, he became an Associate Professor and then Acting Dean at the University of Maryland School of Library and Information Services. He was a Life Member of the American Library Association. The U.S. Census Bureau is the leading source of statistical information about the people in the United States. The population statistics come from decennial censuses, which count the entire U.S. population every ten years, along with several other surveys. Artikel-Nr. 87170

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