US Population 1870. United States. Census Office; Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897, 1874


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Full Title: Map showing, in five degrees of density, the distribution, within the territory of the United States, of the constitutional population, i.e., excluding Indians not taxed. Compiled from the returns of population at the ninth census of the United States, 1870. By Francis A. Walker. To which is added a sketch of the principal Indian reservations and ranges from information furnished by the Office of Indian Affairs of date 1871. (Julius Bien, Lith., 1874)

Author: United States. Census Office; Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897

Date: 1874

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Author: United States. Census Office; Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897

Date: 1874

Short Title: US Population 1870.

Publisher: Washington: U.S.

Type: Atlas Map

Object Height cm: 51

Object Width cm: 73

Scale 1: 7,200,000

Note: Colored lithographed map. Includes center of population.

Country: United States

Subject: Statistical ; Indians

Full Title: Map showing, in five degrees of density, the distribution, within the territory of the United States, of the constitutional population, i.e., excluding Indians not taxed. Compiled from the returns of population at the ninth census of the United States, 1870. By Francis A. Walker. To which is added a sketch of the principal Indian reservations and ranges from information furnished by the Office of Indian Affairs of date 1871. (Julius Bien, Lith., 1874)

List No: 3566.016

Page No: XVIII-XIX

Series No: 19

Engraver or Printer: Bien, Julius

Published In: 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. Compiled under authority of Congress by Francis A. Walker, M.A., Superintendent of the 9th Census, professor of political economy and history, Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College. Julius Bien, Lith., 1874.

Publication Author: United States. Census Office; Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897

Publication Date: 1874

Publication Reference: Phillips, 1330; Phillips. Maps of America, p. 919; LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 407.

Publication Note: See note field above.

Publication List No: 3566.000

Publication Type: Statistical Atlas

Publication Maps: 38

Publication Height cm: 56

Publication Width cm: 43

Image No: 3566016

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