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1790

Population and Housing

Population and Housing (1st Census, 1790):

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Library Holdings:

Return of the whole number of persons within the several districts of the United States.
United States. Census Office. 1791.
[Philadelphia] Childs and Swaine, 1791.
alc HA201 1790 .A1 - Special Collections Rare Books

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]

Philadelphia printed; London, Reprinted, and sold by J. Phillips, 1793.
HA201 1790 .A - Special Collections Rare Books

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]
Washington City, Printed by W. Duane, 1802.
HA201 1790 .A2 - Special Collections Rare Books
HA201 1790 .A2 1976 - Regenstein Stacks (Reprint)

Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790
Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census, S.N.D. North, director.
Washington : G.P.O., 1907-1909
HA201 1790 .C - Regenstein Stacks

Electronic Availability:

Decennials - Census of Population and Housing

Historical Census Browser
from the University of Virginia Library: Geostat Center

Selected Historical Decennial Census Population and Housing Counts
U.S. Census Bureau

HeritageQuest Online

Historical statistics of the United States on CD-ROM [electronic resource] : colonial times to 1970
U.S. Bureau of the Census ; edited by Susan B. Carter ... [et al.]
CDRomHA202.A3 1997 - Regenstein Reading Room Floor 1 and D'Angelo Law Reference

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Guides:

Bureau of the Census catalog of publications, 1790-1972
United States. Bureau of the Census
Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1974
Z7554.U5U6 1974 - Regenstein Stacks; Regenstein Reading Room Floor 1; Regenstein Reading Room Floor 2; and Crerar Reference Floor 1

Dubester's U.S. census bibliography with SuDocs class numbers and indexes
Cook, Kevin L
Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1996
Z7553.C3C660 1996 - Regenstein Reading Room Floor 1 next to the reference desk

Population and Housing Items on the General Census Schedules 1790-2000
Compiled by Grace York, University of Michigan Library, March 2002

More Guides
A list of histories and general overviews of the U.S. Census Bureau