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Subject: RE: Census ward maps
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:03:37 -0500
From: Christopher Winters <[log in to unmask]>
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Some folks at the University of Chicago's Center for Population and
Economics have put together GIS files for historical ward boundaries in
several large cities, including Boston. Go to

http://www.cpe.uchicago.edu/publichealth/gis_analysis.html

The authors of these files used many different sources (including dozens
of our older paper maps). There may no single source of U.S. urban ward
boundaries.

Hope this is useful.

Chris Winters

Christopher Winters
Bibliographer for Anthropology, Geography, and Maps
University of Chicago Library
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Subject:        Census ward maps
Date:   Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:34:53 +0000
From:   Thompson, Thelma <[log in to unmask]>
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Can anyone help with this question? So far, my sources all indicate that
the researcher needs to try the records of individual cities. Are there
other alternatives?

The 1910 Census includes data by ward for large cities in New England.
Do you know if the Census bureau published ward maps to accompany those
reports? If not, do you have any clues where I might find such maps?

Thanks,

Thelma Thompson

Thelma B. Thompson

Government Documents and Maps Librarian

Liaison to Departments of Earth Sciences and Geography

Associate Professor

Dimond Library, 18 Library Way

University of New Hampshire

Durham, NH 03824

Phone: 603-862-1132, Fax 603-862-0247

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