-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: 1880 census maps?
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 11:26:36 -0500
From: Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>


Oops. Walker handled the first of these in 1874. The 1880 was handled by
Gannett. But the images are still there and that LC site is instructive
re: early US census maps.

        Joel Kovarsky

On 11/5/13, 11:08 AM, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library,
UW Milwaukee wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: 1880 census maps?
> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 11:04:12 -0500
> From: Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
> <[log in to unmask]>
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>
> See:
> <http://www.census.gov/history/www/programs/geography/statistical_atlases.html>.
>
>
> I have not gone through Walker's 1880 atlas looking specifically for
> Utah.
>
>        Joel Kovarsky
>
> On 11/5/13, 10:45 AM, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library,
> UW Milwaukee wrote:
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject:        1880 census maps?
>> Date:   Tue, 5 Nov 2013 15:43:06 +0000
>> From:   Ken Rockwell <[log in to unmask]>
>> To:     Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
>> <[log in to unmask]>
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>>
>> I’ve had a reference question about whether we have any “maps of the
>> 1880 Census enumeration districts for the state of Utah.”  It doesn’t
>> appear so, but I wonder how detailed any census maps were back then.
>> Did the census produce (and distribute) such maps that would be
>> available somewhere?  Alternatively, has anyone in more recent times
>> managed to reconstruct such a map for GIS purposes?
>>
>> ---Ken Rockwell
>>
>> J. Willard Marriott Library
>>
>> University of Utah
>>
>> Salt Lake City, UT


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